"New Philosophers" in the Backwoods: Romantic Primitivism in the 1790s' Novel

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.M. Verhoeven
Keyword(s):  
New Philosophers

My Path

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Marion
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Religious Background ◽  
Academic System ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
New Philosophers ◽  
French Intellectuals ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This chapter explains Marion’s intellectual, cultural, and religious background and academic pathway. It provides an account of French intellectual life in the late twentieth century, including the student revolutions and the movement of the “New Philosophers.” It also discusses the contribution of several prominent French intellectuals. Marion outlines the history of the founding of the Catholic lay journal Communio and comments on the importance of several twentieth-century theologians. He also discusses the French academic system and its future.

Objectivity in Morals

Philosophy ◽  
1950 ◽  
Vol 25 (93) ◽  
pp. 149-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Kneale
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Moral Judgments ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Philosophers ◽  
Emotive Meaning

It is remarkable that we have to-day a number of philosophers who call themselves subjectivists in moral philosophy. For, although the name “subjectivist” is by no means new, philosophers have reserved it hitherto for their opponents, and usually for imaginary opponents at that. Perhaps the chief cause of the change which has taken place in recent years is the discovery of a distinction between descriptive and emotive meaning. In the past the only form of subjectivism considered by writers on moral philosophy was the suggestion that moral sentences such as “You ought to do that” were statements about the speaker's own attitude; and it was easy to refute this by pointing out that we discuss questions of morals in a way which would be unintelligent, and even unintelligible, if moral judgments were only reports of introspection. But those who now call themselves subjectivists maintain that the peculiarity of moral words is their expressive and evocative power. According to their analysis, a speaker who uses one of these words in an indicative sentence may be stating nothing at all, but is undoubtedly trying to influence others (and perhaps also himself) to adopt a certain attitude. This, they say, explains how there can be genuine disagreement about questions of morals and why discussion may produce results. If A tries to evoke one attitude in his hearers and B tries to evoke an incompatible attitude, their utterances are opposed, not indeed like contradictory statements, but rather like the efforts of men engaged in a tug-of-war.

Auf die Schiffe, ihr Pädagogen! Ein einführender Textkommentar zu Nietzsches Aphorismensammlung Die fröhliche Wissenschaft

2005 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-122
Author(s):  
Christian Niemeyer
Keyword(s):  
Human Science ◽  
Eternal Recurrence ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
New Philosophers ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
Genealogy Of Morals

AbstractNot only does Nietzsche anticipate the doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence and the diagnosis of God's death in his collection of aphorisms "The Gay Science" (1882), but he also suggests what is later exposed more explicitly in Beyond Good and Evil (1886) and in "On the Genealogy of Morals" (1887): the project of an anti-metaphysical human science with a strong psychological focus and the task for 'new philosophers' to discover and reclaim 'another world' of knowledge and life. In this respect, "The Gay Science" has not been paid adequate attention and has been underestimated so far, in particular by German-speaking educationalists.

Albert Camus: The First of the New Philosophers

1980 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 363
Author(s):  
Jeanyves Guérin ◽  
Diane S. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Albert Camus ◽  
New Philosophers

Knowledge and language ‘for the ladies’

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Sanson
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Science And Literature ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
New Philosophers

Across Europe, as early as the seventeenth century (and even more so in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) women became the target of scientific treatises which aimed to explain new scientific knowledge to an unspecialized audience. Women were the privileged recipients of popularizing works of science and literature, and therefore indirectly contributed to introducing the new philosophers. In view of women's limited education, and their ignorance of Latin, works ‘for the ladies’ became synonymous with something adapted so as to become elementary and easy to grasp. Knowledge ‘for the ladies’ extended also to language, with the production across various countries of grammatical works which claimed to be, according to their titles and prefaces, expressly meant for the female sex. In agreement with the viewpoint that saw women as being incapable of real intellectual efforts, authors of these grammars shunned dry, boring, and taxing ways of learning, in favour of quicker and more pleasant and entertaining ones.

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