The View from Nowhere
Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest, and consider the world from a vantage point that is, in Nagel's words, nowhere in particular. At the same time, each of us is aparticular person in a particular place, each with his own personal view of the world, a view that we can recognize as just one aspect of the whole. How do we reconcile these two standpoints--intellectually, morally, and practically? To what extent are they irreconcilable and to what extent canthey be integrated? Thomas Nagel's ambitious and lively book tackles…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-505644-0
- EAN: 9780195056440
- Produktnummer: 8328871
- Verlag: Oxford Academic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1989
- Seitenangabe: 254 S.
- Masse: H21.3 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.9 cm 348 g
- Gewicht: 348
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Thomas Nagel is University Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law at New York University. His books include The Possibility of Altruism, The View from Nowhere, and What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. In 2008, he was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy and the Balzan Prize in Moral Philosophy.
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