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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- INTRODUCTION: Thought and the Living
- Ist Teil von
- Knowledge of Life, 2008, p.xvii
- Ort / Verlag
- Unknown: Fordham University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2008
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- To know is to analyze. This point is more easily stated than justified, for the attention every philosophy preoccupied with the problem of knowledge gives to the operations of knowing distracts it from the meaning of knowledge. At best, one responds to the latter problem by affirming the sufficiency and purity of knowledge. And yet, knowing only in order to know is hardly more sensible than eating in order to eat, killing in order to kill, or laughing in order to laugh, since it is at once an avowal—that knowledge must have a meaning—and a refusal to find
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 0823229254, 9780823229253Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_ebookcentralchapters_476642_7_21
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Animals, Behavioral sciences, Biological sciences, Biology, Cognitive psychology, Emotion, Emotional states, Environmental sciences, Environmental studies, Fear, Humans, Intelligence, Life sciences: general issues, Mammals, Nature, Philosophy of science, Primates, Psychology, Zoology