Awakening Philosophy: The Loss of Truth

by Robert Elliott Allinson

Overview

In this original book, Robert Elliott Allinson asserts that philosophers have been lulled into a dogmatic sleep by Immanuel Kant, the slayer of metaphysics, who has convinced them (and the rest of humanity) that we can never know Reality. Allinson awakens global philosophers from their sceptical slumbers by diagnosing the reason why they have abdicated their traditional calling as leaders of inquiry into truth and wisdom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031083006
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	08/30/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	374 KB

About the Author

Robert Elliott Allinson is Professor of Philosophy at Soka University of America, USA. Previously he was Professor/Fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, has been an invited Visiting Fellow at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale, and is the author or editor of nine books, most recently, A Metaphysics for the Future (2018).

Table of Contents

1. Prologue.- Part I The Nature of Philosophical Progress.- 2. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.- 3. Plato.- Part II Kant, the Father of Modern Philosophy.- 4. Descartes, Plato, and Kant.- 5. Intellectual Intuition.- 6. Was Kant a Metaphysician?.- 7. Kant’s Arguments against Metaphysics and Ontology.- 8. Kant as the Bridge to Metaphysics.- 9. The Third Kind of Knowledge.- Part III From Epistemology to Metaphysics.- 10. A Path to Metaphysics.- 11. The Mind-Body Problem.- Part IV From Metaphysics to Ethics.- 12. Metaphysics and Ethics.- 13. The Moral Universe.- 14. The Ethical Foundations.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“The need for a new beginning, for authentic metaphysics, is felt everywhere. And Allinson does something that we all secretly knew had to be done, but nobody dared to actually do it so directly. He convincingly argues for the return to a philosophy that shamelessly addresses big questions. A great sigh of relief will be felt by the readers of Awakening Philosophy: The Loss of Truth. We are back home. If there is justice in our intellectual life, this book will become daily bread for thinking beings.” (Slavoj Žižek, International Director, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, UK)

“Awakening Philosophy is as original as it is ambitious. Allinson holds up a mirror to academic philosophy and shows how it has become fragmented into an eclectic set of specialisms. He seeks to get philosophy to question itself, thus reviving the spirit of Socratic enquiry: self-examination. In the process, he sets out to recover ‘the Great Questions’ that have exercised philosophers from Plato to such figures as Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, and Husserl. A timely and ground-breaking book.” (Brian Klug, Emeritus Fellow in Philosophy, St. Benet’s Hall, University of Oxford, UK)

“An elegant and timely appeal for philosophers and the educated public to make use of philosophy's historic roots for purposes of present-day enlightenment.” (Michael Slote, Member, Royal Irish Academy, UST Professor of Ethics, University of Miami, USA)