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Verstehen and Humane Understanding / Anthony O'Hear.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements ; 41 | Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements ; 41.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997Description: 1 online resource (320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511563775 (ebook)
Other title:
  • Verstehen & Humane Understanding
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 121 20
LOC classification:
  • BD241 .V283 1996
Online resources: Summary: This 1997 collection of essays addresses topics that are of crucial importance to the lives of us all. Is there a mode of thinking peculiar to human life and its concerns, which is different from and irreducible to scientific rationality? Is historical understanding different from scientific understanding? Do psychology, religion and aesthetics have their own forms of rationality? Can you be rational about human life without being scientific? The contributors address these and related questions, some focusing on the history of the development of the notion of Verstehen, others examining particular areas of discourse and practice.
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This 1997 collection of essays addresses topics that are of crucial importance to the lives of us all. Is there a mode of thinking peculiar to human life and its concerns, which is different from and irreducible to scientific rationality? Is historical understanding different from scientific understanding? Do psychology, religion and aesthetics have their own forms of rationality? Can you be rational about human life without being scientific? The contributors address these and related questions, some focusing on the history of the development of the notion of Verstehen, others examining particular areas of discourse and practice.

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