The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century PhilosophyPart memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the self–portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on both sides of the Atlantic. The Making of a Philosopher follows Colin McGinn from his early years in England reading Descartes and Anselm, to his years in the states, first in Los Angeles, then New York. McGinn presents a contemporary academic take on the great philosophical figures of the twentieth century, including Bertrand Russell, Jean–Paul Sartre, and Noam Chomsky, alongside stories of the teachers who informed his ideas and often became friends and mentors, especially the colorful A.J. Ayer at Oxford. McGinn's prose is always elegant and probing; students of contemporary philosophy and the general reader alike will absorb every page.
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... argument , theory , truth . It is not a tradition that aims primarily for inspira- tion or consolation or ideology . Nor is it particularly con- cerned with “ philosophy of life , ” though parts of it are . This kind of philosophy is ...
... arguments for the existence of God ( I forget now what book it was ) . I came across something called the " ontological argument , ” invented by Saint Anselm of Can- terbury in the Middle Ages . I found the argument hard to follow but ...
... argument in the terse classi- cal form in which I first encountered it : God is defined as the being than whom none greater can be conceived ; but existence is an attribute that contributes to greatness ; therefore God exists . God thus ...
... argument that the exis- tence of God cannot be sensibly denied . No need to appeal to leaps of faith or speculations about how the world began or the occurrence of miracles : We get the existence of God for free , as a matter of pure ...
... argument was largely accepted by the major philosophers who succeeded Anselm , so it counts as one of the most influential philosophical argu- ments in history . What also impressed me on that wintry day in Blackpool was the fact that ...
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