Socrates in October: Dialogues On Incondensable Complexity (American University Studies / Series 5: Philosophy, Band 42) - Hardcover

Katz, Michael J.

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ISBN 10: 0820405442 ISBN 13: 9780820405445

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York, 1991

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Socrates has come to represent the pure joy of intellectual inquiry, and the Socratic dialogue embodies a special style of logical inquiry and also a clear framework of philosophical information. The intellectual grandfather of Plato's student Aristotle, Socrates still lived at a time when the distinctions between physical science and psychology, linguistics and aesthetics, mathematics and rhetoric were not rigid fences: all philosophical attacks were fair weaponry when trying to understand a problem. In 399 B.C., philosophers could not blithely speak in the language of modern science - using space-time continua or four dimensions or relativistic frames of reference or genetic codes to hide innumerable elemental assumptions about the nature of human understanding. Moreover, Socratic philosophy was always centered around people. Instead of a dense constructure of interlaced and multilayered scientific concepts, Socrates had only his hands and his feet, and the trees, the houses, the mountains, and all the people in the Agora, the marketplace of Athens. Michael Katz has taken advantage of Socrates' world - his style, his perspective, his times, and some of his important themes - to explore the perpetual problem of complexity: Is our world incondensably complex? If so - where and why? And, what does this mean for the kinds of understandings with which we must be satisfied?

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The Author: Michael Jay Katz, M.D.Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Bio-architectonics in the School of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. He has written Elements of the Scientific Paper, Templets and the Explanation of Complex Patterns, Pattern Biology and the Complex Architectures of Life, Night Tales of the Shammas, Socrates in August: From Incondensable Complexity to Myth (Peter Lang), and Socrates in September: The Entanglements of Complexity (Peter Lang).

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• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0820405442
• ISBN 13: 9780820405445
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 215
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