Intersubjectivity and objectivity in Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl :: a collection of essays /

Can we have objective knowledge of the world? Can we understand what is morally right or wrong? Yes, to some extent. This is the answer given by Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl. Both rejected David Hume's skeptical account of what we can hope to understand. But they held his empirical method in h...

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Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2012.
Schriftenreihe:Philosophische Forschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Bd. 8.
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Zusammenfassung:Can we have objective knowledge of the world? Can we understand what is morally right or wrong? Yes, to some extent. This is the answer given by Adam Smith and Edmund Husserl. Both rejected David Hume's skeptical account of what we can hope to understand. But they held his empirical method in high regard, inquiring into the way we perceive and emotionally experience the world, into the nature and function of human empathy and sympathy and the role of the imagination in processes of intersubjective understanding. The challenge is to overcome the natural constraints of perceptual and emotional e.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (315 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9783110325942
3110325942
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9783868381450
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