TY  - BOOK
TI  - Modernity and Plato: Two Paradigms of Rationality
AU  - Schmitt, Arbogast
AU  - Adluri, Vishwa
PY  - 2012
PB  - Boydell & Brewer
LA  - eng
KW  - Plato
KW  - Philosophy, Modern
KW  - PHILOSOPHY - History & Surveys - General
KW  - PHILOSOPHY - History & Surveys - Modern
KW  - PHILOSOPHY - General
AB  - Modernity's break with the Middle Ages is distinguished by a turn to a world of individual, empirical experience, a repudiation of Plato's idea of a reality of rationality and intellect. Yet already in the Renaissance it was no longer thought necessary to confront the "old," Platonic concept of rationality. Arbogast Schmitt's book sets itself this until-now-unfulfilled task, howing that the Enlightenment did not, as often assumed, discover rationality, but instead a different 'concept' of rationality. It is a major contribution to synthetic philosophy and philosophical historiography, in Engli
UR  - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1x7336
UR  - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1x7336
SN  - 9781283665865
SN  - 1283665867
SN  - 9781571134974
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/kxp-738837016
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -