Felt Meanings of the World: A Metaphysics of Feeling
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (663 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1557535981 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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He received the 1986 Rockefeller Award for the best philosophical work by an academically unaffiliated philosopher, for the article Problems with the New Tenseless Theory of Time the same award in 1984 for the article The Infinite Regress of Temporal Attributions. He has been a full professor in the Philosophy Department, Western Michigan University since 1995. He was the only philosopher selected for an award by the American Council of Learned Societies in 1996, and was awarded $20,000. . About the Author Quentin Smith is the 2002 ho
"Joy and Awe from the World Itself" according to Arthur Witherall. This is probably the most unjustifiably neglected work in the history of western philosophy. It expresses a novel and marvellous perspective on the fact of existence itself, and the ways in which we approach this fact. Quentin Smith's masterwork is rigorous, systematic, metaphysics at its finest and most original. The main thesis is that the world is directly appreciated by way of felt meanings, such as joy at the fulfillment of the world, which is the basis of our engagement with t. Amazon Customer said Excellent Book. Amazing content. Smith delves into the metaphysics of feelings in a novel, systematic way. He gives much deserved attention to the knowledge that can be obtained from feelings and from investigating the nature of feelings. Smith guides us into a world that reveals our relationship to the world understood as appreciative and inextricable rather than purely rational and detached. I love--and employ--a priori, rational investigations into metaphysics but this book is also a welcome alt. Novel Thesis I would like to echo the statement of the previous reviewer that this book is one of the most unjustifiably neglected books in philosophy, even though I'm not qualified to make that statement. On top of the overriding argument, intended to bring back the "world as sensuously felt" as a legitimate source of knowledge (as opposed to the common view that the "passions," i.e. feelings are destructive to rationality), Smith also presents well researched yet digestable historical geneolog
Smith gives evocative and exact explications of such features as the world's temporality, appearance, and mind-independency, as these features appear in the appropriate recitations.. In a critical dialogue with the metaphysical tradition from Plato to Hegel to contemporary schools of thought, the author convincingly argues that traditional rationalist metaphysics has failed to accomplish its goal of demonstrating the existence of a divine cause and moral purpose of the world. The author asserts that we must synthesize our two ways of knowing-poetic evocations and exact analyses-in order to decide which mood or affect is the appropriate appreciation of any given feature of the world. To replace the defective rationalist metaphysics, the author builds a new metaphysics on the idea that moods and affects make manifest the world's felt meanings; he argues that each feature of the world is a felt meaning in the sense that each feature is a source of a feeling-response, if and when it appears
He was the only philosopher selected for an award by the American Council of Learned Societies in 1996, and was awarded $20,000. He has been a full professor in the Philosophy Department, Western Michigan University since 1995. He was the Lillian Pierson Lovelace Visiting Professor at Antioch College from 1991 through 1993. He received the 1986 Rockefel