On Philosophy, Intelligibility, and the Ordinary
Going the Bloody Hard Way
Seiten
2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3880-9 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3880-9 (ISBN)
This book calls scholars to avoid the temptation to reduce philosophy into a normative discipline. The author argues that philosophy's main responsibility does not reside in changing the world, but in safeguarding sense and intelligibility against unfounded forms of skepticism.
Randy Ramal argues that philosophy’s main responsibility lies in providing intelligibility to the ordinary language of everyday life while dispelling unwarranted skepticism. Philosophers need to go the hard way to fulfill this responsibility because of the constant and dangerous temptation to turn philosophy into a normative discipline rather than keep it as a descriptively hermeneutical enterprise. In On Philosophy, Intelligibility, and the Ordinary: Going the Bloody Hard Way, the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead is central to Ramal’s endeavor to demonstrate the need to separate the hermeneutical responsibility of philosophy from the normative aspects of responsibility. While showing the futility of labeling Whitehead as a purely disinterested philosopher who abandons the idea that ordinariness is relevant to good philosophical thinking, Ramal frames this discussion within a larger, in-depth engagement with a vast number of thinkers, philosophers, and literary figures whose works touch on the question of the ordinary.
Randy Ramal argues that philosophy’s main responsibility lies in providing intelligibility to the ordinary language of everyday life while dispelling unwarranted skepticism. Philosophers need to go the hard way to fulfill this responsibility because of the constant and dangerous temptation to turn philosophy into a normative discipline rather than keep it as a descriptively hermeneutical enterprise. In On Philosophy, Intelligibility, and the Ordinary: Going the Bloody Hard Way, the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead is central to Ramal’s endeavor to demonstrate the need to separate the hermeneutical responsibility of philosophy from the normative aspects of responsibility. While showing the futility of labeling Whitehead as a purely disinterested philosopher who abandons the idea that ordinariness is relevant to good philosophical thinking, Ramal frames this discussion within a larger, in-depth engagement with a vast number of thinkers, philosophers, and literary figures whose works touch on the question of the ordinary.
Randy Ramal is a visiting researcher at Arizona State University.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: On Ordinariness and Philosophy’s Responsibility to Intelligibility
Chapter 2: Speculating on being in the world alongside Plato and Aristotle
Chapter 3: Courting Ordinary Language with the Ideal Language Philosophers
Chapter 4: Negotiating Ordinary Experience with the Empiricists
Chapter 5: Rubbing Shoulders with Wittgenstein on Ordinary Realism
Chapter 6: Inverting the Logic of Ordinary Atheism with Flew and the New Atheists
Chapter 7: Animalizing Philosophy with Derrida and Coetzee
Conclusion: Final Thoughts
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Contemporary Whitehead Studies |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 572 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-3880-2 / 1793638802 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-3880-9 / 9781793638809 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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