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The Theoretic Life - A Classical Ideal and its Modern Fate
Alexander S. Rosenthal-Pubul
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Springer International Publishing 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Antike
Beschreibung
In this work, Alexander Rosenthal Pubul presents a broad examination of the ancient philosophical question: “What is the good life?”, while addressing how the liberal arts can help us to answer this question. Greek philosophy distinguished between the “noble” (what is good in itself), from the merely “useful” (good for something else). From thence follows the distinction between the liberal arts which pursue such noble goods and the mechanical arts which are only instrumental. For Aristotle, the most noble and excellent good is wisdom itself. Hence the theoretic life devoted to the love of wisdom for its own sake –philosophy - is the highest and the most excellent.
This work theorizes the origins of modernity in a rebellion against this Greek conception resulting in a complete inversion of the classical hierarchy. Sir. Francis Bacon reconceiving the purpose of knowledge as power, enthroned technology over philosophy and theliberal arts. The unfolding of the modern Baconian revolution progressively sidelines the liberal arts, as practical economic and technical utility become the standard of value. In assessing this problem, the book engages in a capacious journey across disciplines like philosophy, history, art, politics, and science. It is also a veritable tour across the Western intellectual tradition including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Thomas Aquinas, Bacon, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Dewey, Berdyaev, Einstein, and Heidegger. It pleads the urgent need to preserve the humanizing cultural ideals of the ancient classics against the modern tyranny of utility and the dangers of a new barbarism.
Kundenbewertungen
Socrates, Philosophy and politics, Baconian Revolution, Hume, Kant, and the Dethronement of Metaphysics, Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, and Hobbes, Politics and ethics, Aristotle, Natural cosmology and the human place within it, Aristotelian Revolution, Theoretic Life in Classical Greek Philosophy, Techno-Economic Pragmatism, The New Barbarism, Contemporary Crisis of the Humanities, Crisis of Humanist Culture, Modern Revolution, Theoretic Life and the Supreme Good, Socratic and Aristotelian ideals, Good life and human happiness, Bacon, the Ancients, And the Rebirth of Time