[lit-ideas] Re: Philo texts?
- From: Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 18:33:05 -0600
One reason I lost the texts that I had, Mike, is that I so disliked the
idea of reading "about" philosophy. I just wanted to read the philosophers
themselves -- and I did... I read a lot of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes,
Hegel, Heidegger, not much of Witt, some Sartre, loved Derrida, liked
Lacan, read Kant, cursed the German language, and so forth. The thing I
was missing in all of that was some sort of thread of continuity in terms
of the development of ideas and attitudes historically... and there are a
number of major philosophers whose work I've only glanced at, if that. I'm
ready to go back and look at an overview perspective. If I read an
original work by a philosopher a day for the rest of my life I couldn't
start with the pre-Socratics and work to the present. And it disheartens
me to realize I'm only thinking about Western philosophy.
I love the way you posed your question in terms of the history of questions!
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On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Mike Geary <gearyservice@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This follows in the same vein as Julie's request. I know that many
> professors of philosophy and philosophers themselves are contemptuous of
> books that deal with the history of philosophy or of ideas, dismissing them
> because they are not philosophy per se, but only "talk" about philosophy.
> But I don't have time to devote to the finer points of any philosophical
> question. However, I do want to know -- in a more than general but less
> than thorough way -- what kinds of questions humankind has concerned itself
> with since that very first moment when some ape said "me". All I ever
> looked for in any of my college philosophy courses was an explication of
> the ideas of various thinkers about certain critical questions that seem
> (to me at any rate) to inquire into primordial issues of our existence.
> What is the history of those questions. What are the major divisions of
> those answers. I've never had any desired to know anything about the
> philosopher, neither his or her life nor how it may have informed his or
> her thinking -- all I want to know is his or her perception of the
> questions and how answered and the implications of those answers. Can
> anyone suggest a book that fills that bill for me? Thank ye, kindly.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 4:41 PM, <cblists@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 27-Nov-13, at 9:14 PM, Julie Krueger wrote:
>>
>> The series I'm thinking of had a reputation in Colleges maybe 30 or 40
>>> years ago as The History Of Philosophy Series. The editor's name began
>>> with a "C". Big help, I know. There was absolutely a volume dedicated to
>>> the Greeks. I think the first volume actually had some of the Pre-Sots
>>> material in it.
>>>
>>
>> Are you thinking of Copleston's multi-volume A History of Philosophy? He
>> starts with the Pre-Socratics and works his way through to (at least, I
>> think) Sartre. The (paperback) edition I have (somewhere) actually broke
>> most of the volumes into two parts, so I can't say off hand how many there
>> are. I seem to recall seeing later editions where several volumes were
>> published in one book.
>>
>> Chris Bruce,
>> ready to head up into the
>> attic if it will be any help, in
>> Kiel, Germany
>> --
>>
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