The Discipline of the Cave (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Findlay, John Niemeyer

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9780415685399: The Discipline of the Cave (Routledge Revivals)
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ISBN 10: 0415685397 ISBN 13: 9780415685399
Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

First published in 1966, The Discipline of the Cave is the first series of a course of Gifford lectures on philosophical issues.. J N Findlay’s lectures use the image of the Cave to show how familiarity is full of restrictions, and involves puzzles and discrepancies unable to be resolved or removed. Such philosophical perplexities may be a result of the misunderstanding and abuse of ordinary ways of thinking and speaking. They may also be a way of ‘drawing us towards being’, providing proof of the absurdity of ordinary thought, speech and experience unless modified and added to in ways which may point beyond it. What may be called a mystical and otherworldly element may need to be introduced into or rendered explicit in all our experience in order to give a viable sense to the most commonplace human utterances and activities.

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J. N. Findlay

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415685397
ISBN 13 
9780415685399
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
222
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