About this title: What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the center of Western philosophy for centuries. In addressing them, philosophers have made certain fundamental assumptionsthat we can know our own minds by introspection, that most of our thinking about the ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1999-12-01
ISBN-13:9780465056743ISBN:0465056741
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1999
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780465056743ISBN:0465056741
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 624 p. Audience: General/trade. Book's ambition is to explain the nature of human knowledge and the basis of philosophical inquiry. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1999-12-01
ISBN-13:9780465056743ISBN:0465056741
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780465056743ISBN:0465056741
Description: New. Three major findings of cognitive science cast doubt on the past 2, 500 years of Western philosophy. Lakoff and Johnson propose to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, starting from clearly known facts about the mind. read more
"This is one of the ten most influential books in my life (and thought). I used something I learned from it in my sermon yesterday. Much of this book served to clarify and integrate what I had already been thinking about language and thinking, some of it was new and wondrous."
"Philosophy in the Flesh is the cooperative effort of a cognitive psychologist and a philosopher. It begins by introducing modern cognitive psychology, and explaining how it is much more experiment-based than the previous generation of psychological explanation. This is followed by an overview, with examples, of many of the metaphors that dominate our lives: viewing time as a stream, viewing goals as places to go to, and so on.
The second half of the book, roughly, discusses various Western philosophical positions in light of the metaphors that ground those positions. This is where the book gets much more speculative as far as I can tell, because the only sources for what metaphors were in Aristotle's head are his writings, we can't experiment on him!
Within this second half of the book, there is a discussion on religion and the metaphors underlying various forms of Christianity specifically. This is a very trendy topic these days and could be the subject of an entire book to itself. The main metaphor raised is whether God and society are modeled as a strict father vs. a nurturant parent. It's clear which model the authors prefer, for religion as well as for public morality outside of religion.
This kind of information, model and analysis is definitely a good tool for thinking about how people think. I'm sure I'll be obsessed with this for quite a while as I practice applying metaphorical analysis to language and ideas."
"An excellent review of the evolution of the philosophy of language, reason and thought. Not only does it explore the effects of early Western philosopher's on today's common concepts of the human mind, it offers new possibilities - taking phenomenology one step further."
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