What you may ask has the author Jane Austen to do with the dialectic? Well, quite a lot, if one look at one of her main novels, Sense and Sensibility which I have just finished reading for the umpteenth time. On the one hand, Austen seems to follow what Alistair MacIntyre terms as Aristotle’s ‘virtue ethics’ […]
Man’s Search for Meaning
Frankl, Viktor E., Man’s Search For Meaning, Rider, 2004 (136 pages) Victor Frankl’s little book, Man’s Search for Meaning, is one of those popular and exceptional books that everyone should read at least once in their lives. Before Frankl died in 1997 it had sold over 9 million copies. The author was a Jewish Austrian […]
‘Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity’, by Stephen Toulmin, published by University of Chicago Press, 1992
Some books are well worth reading and Stephen Toulmin’s books, ‘Cosmopolis’ and ‘Return to Reason’ are certainly two of these. They are both well written analyses of the historical path of the history of ideas in Western philosophy especially from the late medieval period to modernity. Toulmin is searching for a new way in which […]
