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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in excellent condition. Some light tanning due to age. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> A study of the course and consequences of modern Western thought this volume deals with some of the most crucial philosophical questions of our time. In Philosophy at the Crossroads Edward G. Ballard defines philosophy as the inter- pretation of archaic experience that transi- tion or change which forces one to attempt to understand and usually reformulate the basic notional framework within which order and value are discovered. He illustrates the relevance of this definition in the work of six philosophers-Plato Descartes Hume Kant Husserl and Heidegger and develops an interpretation of several important lines of growth in Western philosophy. The first transition Professor Ballard ex- amines is the movement from pre-Homeric oral and poetic culture to the Socratic writ- ten intellectualist culture. The new tradition is evident in Plato who is at once mythmaker and humanist and also the father of the sciences. Plato says Ballard instituted an uneasy balance between a sciencelike interest in the world and a humanist self-care by de- fining the former as a means to the human- istic end. He demonstrates that this uneasy balance is an important clue to understand- ing Western intellectual history. (SP)