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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... kind of philosophy dealt with in this book is often labeled “ analytical philosophy . ” This is really too narrow a label , since what I choose to discuss is not generally a mat- ter of taking a word or concept and analyzing it ...
... kind of philosophy is somehow only of interest to those who are paid to practice it ; part of my point in this book is that these ideas should be of interest to everyone who is concerned with funda- mental questions about reality . As I ...
... kind of snobbery , since people did actually choose to pay good money to visit the place . The main activities of young men in the town were drinking and fighting , and trying to take clumsy advantage of visiting girls under the piers ...
... kind of failure , a lack , but God is defined as the being who fails at nothing , who lacks no positive quality , who gets everything right , who has it all . Such a being has to exist or else he fails to have every positive quality ...
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The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy Colin McGinn Limited preview - 2011 |
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