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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967681503321

Autore

Rescher Nicholas

Titolo

Dialectics : a classical approach to inquiry / / Nicholas Rescher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2007

ISBN

3-938793-76-7

3-11-032128-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Disciplina

121

Soggetti

Dialectic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: DIALECTICAL PROCESSES: A GENERAL VIEW -- Chapter 2: DISPUTATIONAL DIALECTIC -- Chapter 3: COGNITIVE DIALECTIC -- Chapter 4: METHODOLOGICAL DIALECTIC -- Chapter 5: ONTOLOGICAL DIALECTIC: THE HEGELIAN BACKGROUND -- Chapter 6: PHILOSOPHICAL DIALECTIC -- Chapter 7: A BRIEF HISTORY OF DIALECTIC -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Name Index -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Few ideas have played a more continuously prominent role throughout the history of philosophy than that of dialectic, which has figured on the philosophical agenda from the time of the Presocratics. The present book explores the philosophical promise of dialectic, especially in its dialogical version associated with disputation, debate, and rational controversy. The book's deliberations examine what lessons can be drawn to exhibit the utility of dialectical proceedings for the theory of knowledge in reminding us that the building-up of knowledge is an interpersonally interactive enterprise subject to communal standards.