Autore	Barris Jeremy
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, : Fordham University Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xi, 359 p. )
Disciplina	121
Soggetto topico	Truth Certainty Pluralism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8232-4671-X 0-8232-3567-X 1-282-69883-4 9786612698835 0-8232-3835-0 0-8232-2915-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- INTRODUCTORY -- IDEA 1 Artificiality and Nature (Sometimes Being Is Something Else) -- IDEA 2 Knowledge as Intervention: Difficulties and Solutions -- IDEA 3 A Philosophical Rhetoric -- IDEA 4 Knowledge as Intervention: Advantages -- IDEA 5 The Variegated Texture of Truth -- IDEA 6 The Artificiality of Rigorous Thought and the Artificial Dimensions of Reality -- IDEA 7 The Risk of Rigorous Thought -- IDEA 8 Mixture and Purity -- CHAPTER 1 What Plato Is About: An Overview -- CHAPTER 2 Charmides: Lust, Love, and the Problem of Knowledge -- CHAPTER 3 Republic: Justice, Knowledge, and the Problem of Love -- CHAPTER 4 Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman: The Tragicomedy of Knowledge, Reality, and Responsible Conduct -- CONCLUSION The Unevenly Even Consistency of Truth -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Autore	Barris Jeremy
Edizione	[1st ed. 2025.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (0 pages)
Disciplina	823.91
Collana	Religion and Philosophy Series
Soggetto topico	Aesthetics Literature - Aesthetics Ethics Philosophy of mind Self Religion - Philosophy Literary Aesthetics Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics Philosophy of the Self Philosophy of Religion
ISBN	3-032-00518-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	1: Introduction: Life and Contexts -- 2: Bosman and Existential Grace -- 3: The Depth of Artistic Fiction -- 4: A General Overview of the Nature and Depth of Bosman’s Humor -- 5: Specifics of Bosman’s Humorous Storytelling and Its Charmed World -- 6: Bosman’s Charmed World as a Contemplative Space That Brings Out the Meaningfulness of Things -- 7: The Charmed World and the Sense of Sense Itself -- 8: The Truth of the Story’s Content and the Reality of the Reader Themselves.
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Autore	Barris Jeremy
Edizione	[1st ed. 2024.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (446 pages)
Disciplina	808.7
Soggetto topico	Language and languages - Philosophy Literature - Philosophy Metaphysics Ethics Philosophy of Language Philosophy of Literature Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics
ISBN	9783031744334 3031744330
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Introduction -- Chapter 1. Humor as a Privileged Grasp of Deep Truth -- Chapter 2. Humor as a Privileged Grasp of Goodness, Meaningfulness, and Mutually Exclusive Truths.-Chapter 3. Overlaps and Illuminating Problems with Alternative Accounts of Humor -- Chapter 4.Further Features of Humor’s Access to Deep Truth: Humor’s Devices for Fixing and Sustaining our Attention on Sense as Such -- Chapter 5 -- Henry Fielding I: Amiable Humor -- Chapter 6. Henry Fielding II: Amiable Humor, Ironic Distance, and the Charitable Embrace of Conflicting Truths and Values -- Chapter 7 -- The More Fine-Grained Structure of Humor’s Self-Canceling Distance from Sense: How Bringing Out Sense’s Unqualified Truth Itself Makes Room for Sense That It Wholly Excludes -- Chapter 8 Jane Austen: The Consummate Ironist Chapter 9. Charles Dickens: Bleak House, Caricature, and the Meaning and Meaningfulness of Reality Itself -- Chapter 10 -- Oscar Wilde: The Perversity of Paradox and the Sense of Sense Itself -- Chapter 11 -- George Bernard Shaw: The Pertinence of Paradox and the Call in Sense Itself for Charitable Compassion -- Chapter 12. Gilbert Keith Chesterton:The Impertinence of Paradox and the Meaningfulness of Reality Itself -- Chapter 13 -- Long or Narrative Jokes -- Chapter 14. Humor and Religious Insight: Humor as a Celebratory Appreciation of Life and the World. Chapter 15. Humor and the Insights of Particular Religious Traditions -- Conclusion.
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