Metaphysical Animals
Clare Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman
Metaphysical Animals
Clare Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman
- Wydawnictwo: Vintage
- Rok wydania: 2022
- ISBN: 978-1-78474-329-1
- Ilość stron: 398
- Format: 15.0 x 23.0 cm
- Oprawa: Miękka
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Opis: Metaphysical Animals - Clare Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman
'In philosophy, one must start from scratch - & it takes a very long
time to reach scratch'
Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot and Elizabeth Anscombe were
philosophy students at Oxford during the Second World War when most male
undergraduates (and many tutors) were conscripted. Taught by refugee
scholars, women and conscientious objectors, the four friends developed
a philosophy that could respond to the war's darkest revelations.
When images of the concentration camps emerged, Foot wrote: 'We had
thought something like this could not happen.' And when the atom bomb
fell on Hiroshima, Anscombe saw a terrifying new possibility: by signing
his name at the foot of an order, US President Harry Truman had been
able to act on so vast a scale as to end the war by killing hundreds of
thousands. How, they asked, do we find our way through the darkness of
what we have created? Not even the great thinkers of the past or the
logical innovators and Existentialists of the early twentieth century
could make sense of this new human reality. So, in search of an answer,
the four friends set out to bring philosophy back to life.
What is freedom? What is real? What is human goodness? As creatures who
use language - as human animals - it is in our nature to ask these
questions. We are metaphysical animals. And the answers we give shape
what we will become.
Written with expertise and flair, Metaphysical Animals is a vivid blend
of philosophy and recovered history - bringing back the women who shared
ideas, as well as sofas, shoes and even lovers. Clare Mac Cumhaill and
Rachael Wiseman show how from the disorder and despair of the war, four
brilliant friends brought philosophy back to life and created a way of
ethical thinking that is there for us today.
Szczegóły: Metaphysical Animals - Clare Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman
Tytuł: Metaphysical Animals
Autor: Clare Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman
Wydawnictwo: Vintage
Kod paskowy: 9781784743291
ISBN: 978-1-78474-329-1
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2022
Ilość stron: 398
Format: 15.0 x 23.0 cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.63 kg