The challenge of philosophy /
Rickman, H. P.(Hans Peter)
London : Open Gate Press,
2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: in defence of philosophy -- Metaphysics as the creation of meaning -- Linguistic analysis and moral statements -- The reaction against positivism and Dilthey's concept of understanding -- Philosophy and sociology -- Is a value-free social science possible? -- The moral and political implications of Spinoza's concept of individuality -- Kant's political philosophy -- Is philosophic anthropology possible? -- What is the subject matter of sociology? -- Historical judgement and our knowledge of man -- Dilthey and the philosophy of education -- From hermeneutics to deconstruction: the epistemology of interpretation -- Exorcising the ghost in the machine -- Profiting from Plato.
Philosophy.