Binding: Paperback
Description: An accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought from ancient Greece to the present Can we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck with it and even Darwin who profoundly shook the idea was unable to kill it. Indeed purpose seems to be making a comeback today as both religious advocates of intelligent design and some prominent secular philosophers argue that any explanation of life without the idea of purpose is missing something essential. On Purpose explores the history of purpose in philosophical religious scientific and historical thought from ancient Greece to the present. Accessibly written and filled with literary and other examples the book traces how Platonic Aristotelian and Kantian ideas of purpose continue to shape Western thought. Along the way it also takes up tough questions about the purpose of life and whether it's possible to have meaning without purpose.
Title: On Purpose
Author(s): Ruse Michael
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Barcode: 9780691195957
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 11/26/2019
Category: History Of Science