The Philosophy of Practical Affairs: An Introduction (Philosophical Practice)

✍ Scribed by Joseph Agassi

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 173
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Philosophy of Practical Affairs: An Introduction addresses the problems of everyday life, problems that from time to time fate drops on normal twenty-first-century western individuals. Addressing both students and philosophers, Joseph Agassi considers the usefulness of the treatment of daily problems within academic philosophy, including rationalism and fundamental issues of practical wisdom, the community, and the individual’s relationship to community. Unlike most philosophy-of-life literatures from pop-philosophy—especially religious homilies or wisdom literature, including the (pseudo-)cabbalist or (pseudo-)Buddhist, and their like—the book acknowledges real, disturbing situations. Warning the reader against various kinds of intellectual dishonesty, and committed to their rational autonomy, the author thinks through philosophical concepts that are in the end practical issues of philosophy of life.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Preface
Background
Universalism
Universalism versus Particularism
Background to Radicalism
Gradualism and Pluralism
Magic and Science
The Revolt against Reason
The Problem of Rationality
Theories of Rationality
The Flotsam and Jetsam of Philosophy
The Romantic Idea of Reason
The New Enlightenment
Minimal Standards in Ethics
Minimal Standards in Politics
Minimal Standards in Science
Optimism as an Imperative
Democracy as Optimism
‌‌Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author