Philosophy and the liberal arts
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Philosophy and the liberal arts
(Contributions to phenomenology)
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1989
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
As this collection of essays demonstrates, over a long career Edward Goodwin Ballard has written on a wide range of topics of philosophical interest. Although the present volume can be enjoy ably browsed, it is not simply a sampling of his writings. Rather, herein Professor Ballard has chosen and organized essays which pertain to the major concerns of his philosophic life. He has long held that the function of philosophy, particularly in a time such as ours, is the discernment and analysis of basic principles (archai) and their consequences. Indeed, in Philosophy at the Crossroads. he recommended focusing upon the history of philosophy understood as the movement of recognizing and interpreting the shifts in first principles as they reflect and determine human change. For Ballard, the study of the history of philosophy, like philosophy itself, is not so much a body of knowledge as an exercise (an art) whiQh moves the practitioner towards social and individual maturity. He holds, along with Plato and Husserl, that philosophy is a process of conversion to the love of wisdom as well as a grasp of the means for its attainment. Throughout his writings, Ballard has maintained that the difficulties of this journey have to do with the limitations of the pilgrim. Human being is perspectival, finite, and inevitably ignorant. Philosophic command and self -recognition reside in the just assessment of the limits of human knowledge.
Table of Contents
One Phenomenology and the Objective of Historiography.- Two The Idea of Being: A Platonic Speculation.- Three On Parsing the Parmenides.- Four On Participation: Beginning a Philosophical Grammar.- Five On Ritual and Rhetoric in Plato.- Six The Two Republics: A Study in Dialectic.- Seven The Liberal Arts and Plato's Relation to Them.- Eight Saint Augustine's Christian Dialectic.- Nine Faith and Reason in Plato and St. Augustine: A Further Dialectic.- Ten Descartes' Revision of the Cartesian Dualism.- Eleven On Kant's Philosophic Grammar of Mathematics.- Twelve Is Modern Physics Possible Within Kant's Philosophy?.- Thirteen On Kant's Refutation of Metaphysics.- Fourteen Husserl's Ideas in the Liberal Arts Tradition.- Fifteen On the Structure and Value of the Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty.- Sixteen The Unity of the Liberal Arts and the University.- Seventeen Modes of Being and Their Relation to the Liberal Arts and Artist.
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