By Bernard Williams
ISBN-10: 0691124779
ISBN-13: 9780691124773
ISBN-10: 0691134081
ISBN-13: 9780691134086
Before his loss of life in 2003, Bernard Williams deliberate to submit a set of ancient essays, focusing totally on the traditional global. This posthumous quantity brings jointly a much broader choice, written over a few 40 years. His legacy lives on during this masterful paintings, the 1st assortment ever released of Williams's essays at the historical past of philosophy. the topics variety from the 6th century B.C. to the 20 th A.D., from Homer to Wittgenstein when it comes to Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Sidgwick, Collingwood, and Nietzsche. frequently one will be challenging positioned to assert which half is background, which philosophy. either are concerned all through, simply because this can be the historical past of philosophy written philosophically. historic exposition is going hand in hand with philosophical scrutiny. Insights into the earlier counteract blind popularity of current assumptions.
In his touching and illuminating creation, Myles Burnyeat writes of those essays: "They convey a intensity of dedication to the heritage of philosophy seldom to be discovered these days in a philosopher so in demand at the modern philosophical scene."
the outcome celebrates the curiosity and significance to philosophy this present day of its close to and far-off past.
The experience of the Past is one in all 3 collections of essays by means of Bernard Williams released by way of Princeton college Press on account that his demise. In the start used to be the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument, chosen, edited, and with an creation via Geoffrey Hawthorn, and Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, chosen, edited, and with an advent through A. W. Moore, make up the trio.
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Aristotle’s own name for most of these metaphysical enquiries was ‘first philosophy’. Nor is it just the name that was different, but so were the principles of classification, both in the rationale given of them and hence in what is included and excluded. Thus Aristotle has an account of his enquiries into ‘being in general’ which relates the themes of ‘first philosophy’ in a distinctively Aristotelian way to the rest of knowledge (roughly, he supposed that it was distinguished by having a subject-matter which was much more general than that of other enquiries); and it excludes some enquiries which might now be included in metaphysics, such as a priori reflections on the nature of space and time.
What We Have The pre-eminent status of Plato and Aristotle is both the cause and the effect of their work being quite exceptionally well preserved: though in the case of both, and particularly of Aristotle, there was some luck involved. Of Plato’s works, we have everything that he is known to have published. Of Aristotle, we do not have his dialogues (for which he was most admired in antiquity), but we do have a large body of treatises which contain material prepared by him or in some cases by close associates or students.
Over against these, were the objects of sense-perception and everyday belief, the things of the natural world which are mistaken for reality by the ‘lovers of sense-experience’, who are contrasted with the philosophers, the lovers of truth. In the Republic, the distinction between these worlds is hammered home by a series of dichotomies: in the model of the Divided Line, which separates the realm of Forms from that of matter, and assigns reason to the one, the senses to the other; and in an image which has haunted European thought, which represents the philosopher’s education as a journey into the sunlight from a cave, in which ordinary men, prisoners of their prejudices, raptly watch a flickering procession of shadow images.
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