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Yates, Steven

 
9781725263673: What Should Philosophy Do?: A Theory
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ISBN 10: 172526367X ISBN 13: 9781725263673
Editorial: Wipf and Stock, 2021

Sinopsis

Philosophy as an academic discipline has fallen on hard times. Its practitioners might retort that never have there been so many books, articles, blogs, etc. But quantity is not quality, and while philosophers are graduating with PhDs few are finding adequate employment, and this is just the most visible problem. The question, What Should Philosophy Do?, is going begging, and the social justice warriors have tried to transform it into one of their political platforms right along with the rest of the liberal arts or humanities. In this book, philosopher Steven Yates revisits the question anew and comes up with a fresh perspective. He argues that philosophy is not a mere academic discipline, that it has a job to do in civilization that transcends its academic niche. He argues that philosophy should identify, clarify, and evaluate worldviews--noting their contributions, noticed as such or not, to the conversations of civilization, examining their capacity to solve problems, their consistency, and their overall adequacy in helping us live.Yates concludes that we should revisit the Christian worldview, and perhaps other worldviews, as part of an intellectual move towards a philosophical pluralism that emphasizes the freedom and intrinsic value of persons and could provide an alternative to the technocratic world order towards which we are presently heading at breakneck pace.

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Acerca del autor

Steven Yates is a professional writer and independent scholar in philosophy, an entrepreneur, and an expatriated US citizen living in Chile. He has taught philosophy at Clemson University, Auburn University, USC-Upstate, Universidad Andres Bello, and elsewhere. He is the author of Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action (1994) and Four Cardinal Errors: Reasons for the Decline of the American Republic (2011), and has published around twenty-eight articles, review essays, and reviews in refereed journals and anthologies.

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Editorial
Wipf and Stock
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
172526367X
ISBN 13 
9781725263673
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Número de páginas
326
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