Pragmatism has been called America's only major contribution to philosophy. But since its birth was announced a century ago in 1898 by William James, pragmatism has played a vital role in almost every area of American intellectual and cultural life, inspiring judges, educators, politicians, poets, and social prophets. Now the major texts of American pragmatism, from William James and John De…
Debat antara skolastisisme dan humanisme yaitu sebuah konflik antara dua bentuk pengungkapan atau metode studi dan pengajaran yang berbeda dan pada akhirnya menyangkut sejumlah pertanyaan filosofis yang lebih dalam mengenai hakikat manusia dan tujuan pendidikan.
ika kita bertanya siapa filsuf zaman modern yang paling menentukan pemikiran filsafat kemudian hari, kiranya hanya sedikit orang yang tidak akan menyebutkan Immanuel Kant. Profesor yang tidak pernah keluar dari batas kota Konigsberg, ibu kota Prusia, dan mengikuti irama hidup harian yang amat teratur, bahkan rutin itu, dengan pemikirannya yang radikal mengubah gaya manusia berpikir. Bukan seaka…
After discussing existentialism as it pertains to art, human emotions, and psychology, French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre turns the question of existentialism to the subject of literature by stating that he wishes to “examine the art of writing without prejudice.” Sartre eschews the idea of artists and writers comparing their works of art to one another; instead, he argues, …
In exploring the nature of excess relative to a phenomenology of the limit, Testing the Limit claims that phenomenology itself is an exploration of excess. What does it mean that "the self" is "given"? Should we see it as originary; or rather, in what way is the self engendered from textual practices that transgress—or hover around and therefore within—the threshold of phenomenologial disco…