Contentment in contention[electronic...
Southgate, Beverley C.

 

  • Contentment in contention[electronic resource] :acceptance versus aspiration /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 128
    書名/作者: Contentment in contention : acceptance versus aspiration // Beverley Southgate, Reader Emeritus in the History of Ideas, University of Hertfordshire, UK.
    作者: Southgate, Beverley C.
    出版者: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2012.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (pages cm.)
    標題: Contentment.
    標題: Ambition.
    標題: Conduct of life.
    標題: Life.
    標題: HISTORY / Social History.
    標題: HISTORY / World.
    標題: PHILOSOPHY / General.
    標題: PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism
    ISBN: 9780230360884 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230360882 (electronic bk.)
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    內容註: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Epigram -- Introduction -- Contentment with 'Reality' and 'Common-sense' -- Contentment within Cages (i): Science, Ethics, Politics -- Contentment within Cages (ii): Language and History -- Cages: Dogmatism and Escape -- Antidote to Contentment: the Sublime -- Education for Contentment? Utility, Conformity, Dissent -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- -- --.
    摘要、提要註: Whether to accept or to challenge conventional notions of 'reality' and 'common-sense' is a question that has beendebated since antiquity. Do we contentedly accept the 'cages' or constraints seemingly imposed by the human condition, as well as by the intellectual frameworks of science, language, history, and ethics? Or do we aspire to escape and transcend them in an endless quest for something preferable b6 s some indefinable 'sublime'? Beverley Southgateexplores both traditions, identifying two seemingly distinct 'classes of men', variously exemplified by such thinkers as Aristotle and Plato, Bentham and Coleridge, Tolstoy and Nietzsche. Having its starting point in intellectual history, his investigation crosses disciplinary boundaries, drawing on evidence and ideas from philosophers, psychologists, theologians, novelists, poets, and artists. With its recommendation of continuing tension or (in Emerson's terminology) 'oscillation' between acceptance and aspiration, and its positive agenda for the humanities of a 'duty of discontent', this work has important practical implications for politics and education.
    電子資源: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230360884
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