Dialectics
Subtitle: a classical approach to inquiry
By: Nicholas Rescher.
Publisher: Ontos Verlag; Distributed in North and South America by Transaction Books; Brand: Ontos Verlag
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Frankfurt; New Brunswick; Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9783938793763
Subjects: Dialectic.; Inquiry (Theory of knowledge)
Description: "Few ideas have played a more continuously prominent role throughout the history of philosophy than that of dialectic, which has figured on the philosophical agenda from the time of the Presocratics. The present book explores the philosophical promise of dialectic, especially in its dialogical version associated with disputation, debate, and rational controversy. The book's deliberations examine what lessons can be drawn to exhibit the utility of dialectical proceedings for the theory of knowledge in reminding us that the building-up of knowledge is an interpersonally interactive enterprise subject to communal standards."--book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-193) and index.