Agnes Heller on everyday life

✍ Scribed by Richard Wolin

• Book ID: 104635961
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 579 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0304-2421
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00135698

✦ Synopsis

The attempt to render everyday life accessible to philosophical categories, or to bring philosophical categories to bear on everyday life, is certainly not without precedent. Perhaps it is to Aristotle that one's thoughts turn first because it was he, in the Niehomochean Ethics, who recaptured the specificity of phronesis or the practical life, a specificity that had seemingly been lost in Plato's attempts in the Republic to sub-