Questioning
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- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- Publication date:
- January 2025
- July 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781474498081
- 9781474498067
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- Philosophy of Social Science, Philosophy
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Book description
Gideon Baker provides a gripping genealogy of Western philosophy as a history of questioning. As well as revealing the ancient in the modern, Baker reflects on newer questions in Western philosophy, including: is human being uniquely defined by questioning? And does the negativity of questioning lead to nihilistic despair?
Staying faithful to his theme, Baker calls Western philosophy itself into question, asking why questioning should be seen as central to the true life. Is this not the same prejudice that led Socrates, at the beginning of Western philosophy, to ask whether the unexamined life is worth living?
Far from being timeless, the questioning that lies at the heart of Western philosophy has a strange and unsettling history that concerns us all.
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