Genius--in their own words : the intellectual journeys of seven great 20th-century thinkers /
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| Imprint: | Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c2002. |
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| Description: | xxii, 366 p. : ports. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4754084 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1. Bertrand Russell "Not the starry heavens, but their effects on human percipients, have excellence."
- 2. Albert Einstein "All concepts are freely chosen posits."
- 3. Martin Buber "The human means the taking place of that meaning which is latent in the being of the world."
- 4. Sarvepapalli Radhakrishnan "No man ... can ever really be saved until all the others are saved."
- 5. Hans-Georg Gadamer "Question and answer play back and forth between the text and its interpreter."
- 6. Jean-Paul Sartre "To me, philosophy is everything. It is the way one lives."
- 7. A.J. Ayer "That would indeed be a shock to common sense."
- About the Autobiographies
- Index
