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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Truth as a Fundamental Value -- 1.1 -- 1.2 -- 1.3 -- 1.4 -- 1.5 -- 1.6 -- 1.7 -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: The Ancient Greek Skeptics' Practice and Its Relation to Truth -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: "A Broken Mirror": Cynicism and the Scandal of the True Life -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Cynicism and Diogenes as a "Socrates Gone Mad" -- 3.3 Foucault on Cynicism, Parrhesia, and the Practice of True Discourse |
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3.4 Cynicism and the Scandal of the Truth -- 3.5 Conclusion: The "Broken Mirror" -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Truth and Ideology in Classical China: Mohists vs. Zhuangists -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Mohist Philosophy: The Power of Ideology -- 4.3 Zhuangist Philosophy: Pluralism and Anti-Dogmatism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chinese Classics -- Contemporary Scholarship -- Chapter 5: Meditative Cultivation and the Force of Truth in Dharmakīrti's Philosophy -- 5.1 Caitra's and Maitrī's Cultivations -- 5.2 Phenomenal Vividness and the Mechanics of Cultivation |
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5.3 Yogic Awareness or Yogic Perception? -- 5.4 Conviction and the As-If Character of Yogic Awareness -- 5.5 The Difference Truth Makes -- 5.6 Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Literature -- Chapter 6: Skepticism as a Truth-Seeking Practice: The Pyrrhonists, Diderot, and Regulative Epistemology -- 6.1 Introduction: Regulative Epistemology and the History of Philosophy -- 6.2 Pyrrhonian Skepticism and Epistemology -- 6.3 Pyrrhonian Skepticism as a Truth-Seeking Practice -- 6.4 Pyrrhonian Skepticism as a Practice Aimed at Tranquility |
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6.5 The Practical Implications of Pyrrhonian Skepticism -- 6.6 Diderot's Characterization of the Enlightenment Skeptic -- 6.6.1 The Enlightenment Skeptic "Has Questioned All He Believes" -- 6.6.2 The Enlightenment Skeptic "Believes What a Legitimate Use of His Reason and His Senses Has Proved Him to Be True" -- 6.6.3 "Make a Pyrrhonist Sincere, and You Have the [Enlightenment] Sceptic" -- 6.7 Conclusive Remarks: From Truth-Seeking Practices to the Practical -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Schopenhauer, the Practice of Beauty, the Practice of Compassion, and Metaphysical Truth |
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7.1 The Practice of Beauty -- 7.2 The Practice of Compassion -- 7.3 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Secondary Literature -- Chapter 8: The Early Marx's Materialism of Sensibility as Activity: Rejecting a New Myth of the Given -- 8.1 -- 8.2 -- 8.3 -- 8.4 -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9: Anti-Foundationalist Practices of Truth: Foucault, Nietzsche, and James -- 9.1 Games of Truth -- 9.2 The Will to Know -- 9.3 An Instrumentalist Criterion of Truth -- 9.4 Beliefs and Actions -- 9.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- References |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Chapter 10: "Not Empiricism and Yet Realism in Philosophy, That Is the Hardest Thing" |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Serini, Lorenzo
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| ISBN |
9781000968705 |
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1000968707 |
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