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The Paradox of Cause and Other Essays - Softcover

Miller, John William

 
9780393307313: The Paradox of Cause and Other Essays
Softcover
ISBN 10: 039330731X ISBN 13: 9780393307313
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

These essays, deceptively simple in phrasing, address current and historic issues. They speak to anyone who has been baffled by the old conflict between personal freedom and causal order. More widely, they examine the role of action in the projection of any general order, including the physical. They find history as the career and evolution of self-criticizing and self-correcting action. They reject all "theories" of history, whether as a chaos or an episode in an ahistoric totality. They propose a common source of science and the humanities, of laboratory and the Muses. Key words here are act and action. They contrast with passivity and with the convention that requires us to keep out of our own thought in order to avoid illusion and egotistical pretentiousness.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John William Miller (1895-1978) taught at Williams College, and he is well known for his extraordinary teaching (described in Masters: Portraits of Great Teachers).

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Verlag
W. W. Norton & Company
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
039330731X
ISBN 13 
9780393307313
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
198
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