The active life :: Miller's metaphysics of democracy /

"The ancient antagonism between the active and the contemplative lives is taken up in this examination of John William Miller's effort to forge a metaphysics of democracy. The Active Life sheds new light on Miller's actualist philosophy - its scope, its systematic character, and its d...

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1. Verfasser: McGandy, Michael J.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2005.
Schriftenreihe:SUNY series in the philosophy of the social sciences.
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Online-Zugang:DE-862
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Zusammenfassung:"The ancient antagonism between the active and the contemplative lives is taken up in this examination of John William Miller's effort to forge a metaphysics of democracy. The Active Life sheds new light on Miller's actualist philosophy - its scope, its systematic character, and its dialectical form. Michael J. McGandy sets Miller's actualism in the context of Hannah Arendt's understanding of the active life and skillfully presents actualism as a response to Whitman's challenge to craft a democratic form of metaphysics. McGandy concludes that Miller reveals how the philosophical and the political are inextricably connected, how there is no active life without the contemplative life, and that the contemplative life is founded in the active life."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvii, 231 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222) and index.
ISBN:1423747771
9781423747772
9780791482865
0791482863

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