Dialectics : a classical approach to inquiry / Nicholas Rescher.

Few ideas have played a more continuously prominent role throughout the history of philosophy than that of dialectic, which has figured on the philosophical agenda from the time of the Presocratics. The present book explores the philosophical promise of dialectic, especially in its dialogical versio...

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Main Author: Rescher, Nicholas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Piscataway, NJ : Ontos Verlag ; Distributed in North and South America by Transaction Books, 2007.
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Summary:Few ideas have played a more continuously prominent role throughout the history of philosophy than that of dialectic, which has figured on the philosophical agenda from the time of the Presocratics. The present book explores the philosophical promise of dialectic, especially in its dialogical version associated with disputation, debate, and rational controversy. The book's deliberations examine what lessons can be drawn to exhibit the utility of dialectical proceedings for the theory of knowledge in reminding us that the building-up of knowledge is an interpersonally interactive enterprise sub.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ii, 200 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-193) and index.
ISBN:9783110321289
3110321289
9783110321012
3110321017
3938793767
9783938793763
Language:English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
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