Philosophical finesse : studies in the art of rational persuasion
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Philosophical finesse : studies in the art of rational persuasion
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1989
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Bibliography: p. [371]-393
Includes index
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Description
This book puts forward an interpretation of rationality which is much broader than the one underlying the current polarity between analytic and continental philosophy. It will help to reaffirm a range of ideas which have long been pushed to the sidelines by the dominance of the geometric model of philosophical argument.
Descartes's dream of attaining a `certitude equal to the demonstrations of Arithmetic and Geometry' reinforced the assumption that rationality must be assessed in terms of logical structure. Against this, Pascal invoked the notion of `finesse', and Warner extends Pascal's usage in this book to specify a related set of informal but legitimate styles of argument.
Table of Contents
- Philosophical reasoning: The disposition to Geometrize
- Classical models of rationality: Plato, Aristotle and Cicero
- On taking the Phaedo seriously
- Job versus his comforters: Rival paradigms of "Wisdom"
- Pascal's reasons of the heart
- Hume and the education of Pamphilus
- Nietzsche's philosophical hammer
- Philosophical finesse
- notes
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