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natural: Modernity, Philosophy, and the only is an experimental paintings of philosophy during which the writer aspires to imagine his as far back as a "premodern" worldview derived from the philosophical culture of Platonism. To this finish he makes an attempt to spot and elucidate the basic highbrow assumptions of modernity and to topic those assumptions to a serious evaluate from the viewpoint of Platonic metaphysics. the writer addresses a wide variety of topics - from ethics, politics, metaphysics, and technology to the philosophies of Plato, Plotinus, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche - with no wasting sight of the one objective of formulating a premodern standpoint towards modernity. The paintings culminates in a chain of essays at the perform of purification, a sort of highbrow and religious self-discipline stated via historical and medieval philosophers alike to be an important initial to metaphysical perception. natural is trained all through through rigorous scholarship, however it isn't really an "academic" paintings. the writer avoids the plodding and professorial tone common of latest philosophical examine in desire of a meditative and aphoristic kind. The e-book, briefly, is discovered with no being pedantic. Readers attracted to the heritage of philosophy and the highbrow roots of the main issue of modernity will locate in natural vast subject for reflection.

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Pure: Modernity, Philosophy, and the One

Natural: Modernity, Philosophy, and the single is an experimental paintings of philosophy within which the writer aspires to imagine his as far back as a "premodern" worldview derived from the philosophical culture of Platonism. To this finish he makes an attempt to spot and elucidate the basic highbrow assumptions of modernity and to topic those assumptions to a serious assessment from the point of view of Platonic metaphysics.