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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459621803321

Autore

Chokr Nader N.

Titolo

'Philosophy' - after the end of philosophy : in a globalizing and glocalizing world / / by Nader N. Chokr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-6965-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (429 p.)

Disciplina

110

Soggetti

Metaphysics

Ontology

Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; GENERAL INTRODUCTION; ESSAY # 1; ESSAY # 2; ESSAY # 3; ESSAY # 4; ESSAY # 5; ESSAY # 6; ESSAY # 7; ESSAY # 8; ESSAY # 9; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The essays included in this collection deal with a wide and diverse range of problems and issues: namely, Cultural Complexity; Globalization; Glocalization; Relativism; Bullshit; Embodied and Situated Cognition; Capabilities Approach; Moral Universalism; Solidarity; Cosmopolitanism; Pluralism; Human Rights; Justice; and ""Philosophy"" after the end of Philosophy. This work takes its main title from the last essay, in which the author makes an effort to rethink the nature and purpose of ""philo...