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The Magic of Unknowing: An East-West Soliloquy de Mervyn Sprung

The Magic of Unknowing: An East-West Soliloquy

Autor Mervyn Sprung
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 iun 1987
"A work of intrinsic merit; competent and philosophically adept. The general public, as well as academics, will enjoy reading this book, and will profit from doing so." -- Robert Carter, Trent University
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ISBN-13: 9780921149088
ISBN-10: 0921149085
Pagini: 159
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Broadview Press
Colecția Broadview Pr

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The Magic of Unknowing is a unique philosophical and literary work. Cast in the dialogue form, it unfolds in the mood of soliloquy. Mervyn Sprung has created an imaginative meeting of the minds of great western philosophers: Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Hume, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Pyrrho. All are brothers, the more skeptical sons of Aristotle. Later they hear as well from Chang, a Taoist, and Nagaraj, a Buddhist, both lately adopted into the family.

The dialogue dramatises the erosion in modern times of Aristotelian rationality under the pressures of its own logic. The two eastern thinkers throw the weight of their own skepticism into the discussion at the critical point.

In the end the brothers realize that they have moved away from Western philosophy's faith in the singular power of reason to establish truth and sense in the human world. They discover the magic of unknowing that lies in the reciprocal penetration of knowledge and behavior, each receiving its sense from the other. They discover that philosophies are not the issue of reasoning alone but are themselves already inseparably thought and action. And they realise that this entails an unheard-of future for philosophy.

Notă biografică

Mervyn Sprung, Professor Emeritus at Brock University and a former Hooker Visiting Professor at McMaster University, is the author of four previous books on eastern and comparative philosophy, including Lucid Exposition of the Middle Way: A Translation of the Prasannapada (Routledge & Kegan Paul).