The active life [[electronic resource] ] : Miller's metaphysics of democracy / / Michael J. McGandy

• Autore: McGandy Michael J
• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Disciplina: 191
• Soggetto topico: Act (Philosophy); Democracy - Philosophy
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-222) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- A Metaphysics of Democracy? -- Action -- Symbol -- History -- Democracy -- The Scholar and the Citizen -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The ancient antagonism between the active and the contemplative lives is taken up in this innovative and wide-ranging examination of John William Miller's effort to forge a metaphysics of democracy. The Active Life sheds new light on Miller's actualist philosophy—its scope, its systematic character, and its dialectical form. Michael J. McGandy persuasively sets Miller's actualism in the context of Hannah Arendt's understanding of the active life and skillfully presents actualism as a response to Whitman's challenge to craft a democratic form of metaphysics. McGandy concludes that Miller reveals how the philosophical and the political are inextricably connected, how there is no active life without the contemplative life, and that the contemplative life is founded in the active life.
• Titolo autorizzato: The active life
• ISBN: 0-7914-8286-3; 1-4237-4777-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819321903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences.