The view from nowhere / / Thomas Nagel

• Autore: Nagel Thomas
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Oxford University Press, USA, , 1986
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages)
• Disciplina: 121.4
• Soggetto topico: Ethics; Mind and body; Objectivity
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; I. INTRODUCTION; II. MIND; 1. Physical Objectivity; 2. Mental Objectivity; 3. Other Minds; 4. Consciousness in General; 5. The Incompleteness of Objective Reality; III. MIND AND BODY; 1. Dual Aspect Theory; 2. The Self as Private Object; 3. Personal Identity and Reference; 4. Parfit; 5. Kripke; 6. Panpsychism and Mental Unity; 7. The Possibility of Progress; IV. THE OBJECTIVE SELF; 1. Being Someone; 2. A Semantic Diagnosis; 3. The Centerless View; V. KNOWLEDGE; 1. Skepticism; 2. Antiskepticism; 3. Self-transcendence; 4. Evolutionary Epistemology; 5. Rationalism ; 6. Double Vision; VI. THOUGHT AND REALITY; 1. Realism; 2. Idealism; 3. Kant and Strawson; 4. Wittgenstein; VII. FREEDOM; 1. Two Problems; 2. Autonomy; 3. Responsibility; 4. Strawson on Freedom; 5. The Blind Spot; 6. Objective Engagement; 7. Morality as Freedom; VIII. VALUE; 1. Realism and Objectivity; 2. Antirealism; 3. Desires and Reasons; 4. Types of Generality; 5. Pleasure and Pain; 6. Overobjectification; IX. ETHICS; 1. Three Kinds of Agent-relativity; 2. Reasons of Autonomy; 3. Personal Values and Impartiality; 4. Deontology; 5. Agents and Victims; 6. Moral Progress ; X. LIVING RIGHT AND LIVING WELL; 1. Williams's Question; 2. Antecedents; 3. Five Alternatives; 4. The Moral, the Rational, and the Supererogatory; 5. Politics and Conversion; XI. BIRTH, DEATH, AND THE MEANING OF LIFE; 1. Life; 2. Meaning; 3. Death; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest, and consider the world from a vantage point that is, in Nagel's words, ""nowhere in particular"". At the same time, each of us is a particular person in a particular place, each with his own ""personal"" view of the world, a view that we can recognize as just one aspect of the whole. How do we reconcile these two standpoints--intellectually, morally, and practically? To what extent are they irreconcilable and to what extent can they be integrated? Thomas Nagel's ambitious and lively book tackles this fundamental issue, arguing that our divided nature is the root of a whole range of philosophical problems, touching, as it does, every aspect of human life.
• Titolo autorizzato: View from nowhere
• ISBN: 0-19-976992-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818715103321
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