Awakening Philosophy

In this original book, Robert Elliott Allinson asserts that philosophers have been lulled into a dogmatic sleep by Immanuel Kant, the slayer of metaphysics, who has convinced them (and the rest of humanity) that we can never know Reality. Allinson awakens global philosophers from their sceptical slumbers by diagnosing the reason why they have abdicated their traditional calling as leaders of inquiry into truth and wisdom.

Auteur

Robert Elliott Allinson is Professor of Philosophy at Soka University of America, USA. Previously he was Professor/Fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, has been an invited Visiting Fellow at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale, and is the author or editor of nine books, most recently, A Metaphysics for the Future (2018).

Contenu

1. Prologue.- Part I The Nature of Philosophical Progress.- 2. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.- 3. Plato.- Part II Kant, the Father of Modern Philosophy.- 4. Descartes, Plato, and Kant.- 5. Intellectual Intuition.- 6. Was Kant a Metaphysician?.- 7. Kant's Arguments against Metaphysics and Ontology.- 8. Kant as the Bridge to Metaphysics.- 9. The Third Kind of Knowledge.- Part III From Epistemology to Metaphysics.- 10. A Path to Metaphysics.- 11. The Mind-Body Problem.- Part IV From Metaphysics to Ethics.- 12. Metaphysics and Ethics.- 13. The Moral Universe.- 14. The Ethical Foundations.