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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... word or concept and analyzing it ( whatever exactly that might be ) . The philosophical tradition of which I am a part begins with Plato and Aristotle , contin- ues through Locke , Berkeley , and Hume , as well as Descartes , Leibniz ...
... word was " scholar " ) but who didn't quite have the ability to make it as a university professor . He spoke of his university days as though they were a veritable heaven , his eyes burning with remembered enthusiasm . He taught us the ...
... words over and over again , trying to absorb their meaning , as my feet grew colder . The sen- sation was of my mind ... word " God , " and apparently we can mean this whether or not God actually exists . As Anselm put it , God is ...
... word " God , " but what we don't know is whether there is anything in reality that answers to this definition . An agnostic who doubts God's existence surely knows perfectly well what the word " God " means - just as we all know what ...
... word " God " means you thereby know that God exists , since what we mean by God is just the most perfect being , and ... words , as a kind of conceptual necessity ; so it is not logically coherent to doubt his existence , as if this ...
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The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy Colin McGinn Limited preview - 2011 |
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