The Ordering of Time: Meditations on the History of Philosophy
What is the history of philosophy? What exactly is this the history of and how is that history to be understood in relationship to philosophy itself? Can philosophy’s history, on any of a number of diverse descriptions, ever be said in its own right to constitute a unique and genuine source of philosophical wisdom or insight?
George Lucas sweeps aside the constraints of traditional methodological and cultural boundaries to reflect broadly on a variety of answers to these questions, as posed by many of the major philosophical figures of the past century. Inviting a re-consideration of the work of scholars as diverse as Alasdair MacIntyre, Leo Strauss, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Danto, Martha Nussbaum, Paul Ricoeur, Charles Taylor, Keith Lehrer and Jerome Schneewind, Lucas ranges widely over the history of philosophy itself in search of original, probing answers to these profound and perennial issues.

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The Ordering of Time: Meditations on the History of Philosophy
What is the history of philosophy? What exactly is this the history of and how is that history to be understood in relationship to philosophy itself? Can philosophy’s history, on any of a number of diverse descriptions, ever be said in its own right to constitute a unique and genuine source of philosophical wisdom or insight?
George Lucas sweeps aside the constraints of traditional methodological and cultural boundaries to reflect broadly on a variety of answers to these questions, as posed by many of the major philosophical figures of the past century. Inviting a re-consideration of the work of scholars as diverse as Alasdair MacIntyre, Leo Strauss, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Danto, Martha Nussbaum, Paul Ricoeur, Charles Taylor, Keith Lehrer and Jerome Schneewind, Lucas ranges widely over the history of philosophy itself in search of original, probing answers to these profound and perennial issues.

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The Ordering of Time: Meditations on the History of Philosophy

The Ordering of Time: Meditations on the History of Philosophy

by George Lucas
The Ordering of Time: Meditations on the History of Philosophy

The Ordering of Time: Meditations on the History of Philosophy

by George Lucas

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What is the history of philosophy? What exactly is this the history of and how is that history to be understood in relationship to philosophy itself? Can philosophy’s history, on any of a number of diverse descriptions, ever be said in its own right to constitute a unique and genuine source of philosophical wisdom or insight?
George Lucas sweeps aside the constraints of traditional methodological and cultural boundaries to reflect broadly on a variety of answers to these questions, as posed by many of the major philosophical figures of the past century. Inviting a re-consideration of the work of scholars as diverse as Alasdair MacIntyre, Leo Strauss, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Danto, Martha Nussbaum, Paul Ricoeur, Charles Taylor, Keith Lehrer and Jerome Schneewind, Lucas ranges widely over the history of philosophy itself in search of original, probing answers to these profound and perennial issues.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781474478557
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 09/15/2020
Pages: 184
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

George Lucas is Distinguished Chair of Ethics and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at The United States Naval Academy. He is General Editor of The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Injustice in the Margins of Time and History; 1. Ordering Time: Thinking with the Presocratics; 2. The Tragical History of Doctor Beneke; 3. Philosophy’s Recovery of its History; 4. Three Rival Conceptions of Philosophical Discourse; 5. Art, Philosophy and the Shapes of the Past; 6. A New Methodology for Philosophy; 7. The Critique of Enlightenment and the Question Concerning Metaphysics; 8. Scientific Revolutions and the Search for Covariant Metaphysical Principles; 9. People without a Name; Bibliography; Index.

What People are Saying About This

John K. Roth

An engaging and masterful interpretation of the history of Western philosophy, The Ordering of Time is much more than that.  Profoundly ethical, this is a book for our times, troubled as they are by doomful threats such as the COVID-19 pandemic, global economic depression, and climate change. George Lucas shows how to care about the past—its injustice as well as its grandeur and everyday facticity—so that we recover and respect insights that make life worth living and presenting to those who follow after us.

Emory University Donald Phillip Verene

George Lucas has provided the reader with an engaging invitation to consider the importance of the history of philosophy at a time when philosophers have turned away from the study of the great ideas it contains. This work is fundamental for anyone who wishes to think through what philosophy is.

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