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The Last Word
by Nagel, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good condition
- ISBN 10
- 0195108345
- ISBN 13
- 9780195108347
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About This Item
New York : Oxford Univerity Press, 1997. Edition Not Stated. Hardcover (Original Cloth),. Good Condition/Good condition. Binding is tight and spine fully intact but spine is slightly cocked Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting No foxing in this copy Edge has some faint spots Pencil mark on back endpaper f there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view--principles that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. But this generality of reason is what relativists and subjectivists deny in ever-increasing numbers. And such subjectivism is not just an inconsequential intellectual flourish or badge of theoretical chic. It is exploited to deflect argument and to belittle the pretensions of the arguments of others.
The continuing spread of this relativistic way of thinking threatens to make public discourse increasingly difficult and to exacerbate the deep divisions of our society. In The Last Word, Thomas Nagel, one of the most influential philosophers writing in English, presents a sustained defense of reason against the attacks of subjectivism, delivering systematic rebuttals of relativistic claims with respect to language, logic, science, and ethics. He shows that the last word in disputes about the objective validity of any form of thought must lie in some unqualified thoughts about how things are--thoughts that we cannot regard from outside as mere psychological dispositions.
The continuing spread of this relativistic way of thinking threatens to make public discourse increasingly difficult and to exacerbate the deep divisions of our society. In The Last Word, Thomas Nagel, one of the most influential philosophers writing in English, presents a sustained defense of reason against the attacks of subjectivism, delivering systematic rebuttals of relativistic claims with respect to language, logic, science, and ethics. He shows that the last word in disputes about the objective validity of any form of thought must lie in some unqualified thoughts about how things are--thoughts that we cannot regard from outside as mere psychological dispositions.
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- Bookseller
- Spencer and Murphy Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56287
- Title
- The Last Word
- Author
- Nagel, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth),
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition Not Stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0195108345
- ISBN 13
- 9780195108347
- Publisher
- Oxford Univerity Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Pages
- 147
- Keywords
- Philosophers philosophy, philosophers, subjectivism
- X weight
- 300.000 kg
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