Concepts and Categories

Philosophical Essays
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-691-00234-7
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

"The goal of philosophy is always the same, to assist men to understand themselves and thus to operate in the open, not wildly in the dark."--Isaiah BerlinThis volume of Isaiah Berlin's essays presents the sweep of his contributions to philosophy from his early participation in the debates surrounding logical positivism to his later work, which more evidently reflects his life-long interest in political theory, the history of ideas, and the philosophy of history. Here Berlin describes his view of the nature of philosophy, and of its main task: to uncover the various models and presuppositions--the concepts and categories--that men bring to their existence and that help form that existence. Throughout, his writing is informed by his intense consciousness of the plurality of values, the nature of historical understanding, and of the fragility of human freedom in the face of rigid dogma.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berlin, Isaiah

Hardy, Henry

Weitere Mitwirkende

Williams, Bernard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editor's PrefaceAuthor's PrefaceIntroductionThe Purpose of Philosophy1Verification12Empirical Propositions and Hypothetical Statements32Logical Translation56Equality81The Concept of Scientific History103Does Political Theory Still Exist?143'From Hope and Fear Set Free'173Index199

Über Autor(innen)

Isaiah Berlin was, until his death in 1997, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was renowned as an essayist and as the author of many books, among them "Karl Marx, Four Essays on Liberty, Russian Thinkers, The Sense of Reality, The Proper Study of Mankind," and from Princeton, "Concepts and Categories, Personal Impressions, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, The Roots of Romanticism, The Power of Ideas," and "Three Critics of the Enlightenment". Henry Hardy, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, is one of Isaiah Berlin's literary trustees. He has edited several other volumes by Berlin, and is currently preparing Berlin's letters and remaining unpublished writings for publication.