Theory and Practice: An Essay in Human Intentionalities

✍ Scribed by Nathan Rotenstreich (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Series: The Van Leer Jerusalem Foundation Series 3
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Nathan Rotenstreich, 1914-1993, was Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was the Rector of this University and the Vice President of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities.
Some of his well known essays are: Between Past and Present, Spiritand Man, Tradition and Reality, and Jewish Philosophy in Modern Times. Together with S.H. Bergman he translated Kant's three Critiques into Hebrew.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Types of Knowing....Pages 3-19
Echoing the Classical Distinctions....Pages 20-28
Craftsmanship as Knowledge....Pages 29-38
Reason and its Realization....Pages 39-57
Theory, Praxis, and Speculation....Pages 58-70
History Replacing Speculation....Pages 71-82
Systems of Thought and their Consequences....Pages 83-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
Residues and Seeds....Pages 99-104
The Ways of the Understanding....Pages 105-117
Discernment....Pages 118-129
Underivable Contents....Pages 130-153
Events and Acts....Pages 154-160
Non-Preferential Primacy....Pages 161-179
The Ethical Deed....Pages 180-205
The Technical Act and Technology....Pages 206-232
Back Matter....Pages 233-239

✦ Subjects

Philosophy