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Boston College Studies in Philosophy, volume III: Authority

Door Frederic J. Adelmann

Categorie
Filosofie
Boeknummer
#188614
Titel
Boston College Studies in Philosophy, volume III: Authority
Auteur
Adelmann, Frederic J. (edited by)
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Boston College, Chestnut Hill & Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague
Jaar van uitgave
1974
ISBN10
9024715946
ISBN13
9789024715947
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
It seems evident to anyone giving thought to the matter, that at the root of contemporary social ruptures lies an attack on the theory and practice of authority. Marcuse's philosophy could be equated with anti-authoritarianism. His anti-establishment theses cut deeply into the roots of every contemporary institutional structure, whether it be the giant military governmental complex, the family, the universities, or simply the status quo. His Critical Philosophy has apparent roots in the Frankfurt School of Social Research and in the early Marxist revisionists like Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Kautsky, all of which In fact, the main point of philosophical thinking is anti-authoritarian. Feuerbach'sEssenceo/Christianity is an attempt to demythologize all authoritarian structures by centering the ... (Lees verder)attack against the belief in a real God and in the institutionalized structures that defend such a belief. Furthermore, ethicians and political scientists over the centuries have been vague in their treatment of the notion of authority. The old scholastic textbooks referred to authority as the form of society; the newer ones omitted the point altogether. Even Professor Carl J. Fried- rich's volume in the Nomos series (I958) entitled Authority did not venture further back with any depth beyond the post-Reformation era. The Syntopicon , a nugget of philosophical concepts in the tra- dition of the West, has no special topic on authority. This is strange in the light of what has happened.
Pagina's
118
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