Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

Can reason absorb the psyche's nonrational elements into a conception of the fully realized human being? Without a good answer to that question, Jonathan Lear says, philosophy is cut from its moorings in human life. He brings into conversation psychoanalysis and moral philosophy, which together...

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Main Author: Lear, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press [2017]
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Summary:Can reason absorb the psyche's nonrational elements into a conception of the fully realized human being? Without a good answer to that question, Jonathan Lear says, philosophy is cut from its moorings in human life. He brings into conversation psychoanalysis and moral philosophy, which together form a basis for ethical thought about how to live
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Physical Description:1 online resource (330 pages)
ISBN:9780674973602
DOI:10.4159/9780674973602

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