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Reading And Writing In The Text Of Hobbes's Leviathan, Gary Shapiro
Reading And Writing In The Text Of Hobbes's Leviathan, Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Critics have often suggested that Hobbes is a paradigm case of a philosopher whose own style of writing violates the norms he sets down for rational discourse. Philosophy, he says, "professedly rejects not only the paint and false colors of language, but even the very ornaments and graces of the same." More specifically he says that metaphors must be "utterly excluded" from "the rigorous search of truth ... seeing they openly professe deceit, to admit them into counsel, or reasoning, were manifested folly.” Nevertheless, attention focuses on his flair for the dramatic or metaphorical, as in the great mise en …
The Illusion Of Technique: A Search For Meaning In Technological Civilization, Albert Borgmann
The Illusion Of Technique: A Search For Meaning In Technological Civilization, Albert Borgmann
Philosophy Faculty Publications
The title of the book which seems to promise an essay in the philosophy of technology may be misleading since the avowed purpose of the book is to present "a study of contemporary philosophy" which is at the same time "an attempt at a connected argument for freedom".