Sökresultat för: Clare Carlisle
On Habit (Pocket)
avClare Carlisle
ISBN: 9780415619141 - UTGIVEN: 2014-04For Aristotle, excellence is not an act but a habit, and Hume regards habit as 'the great guide of life'. However, for Proust habit is problematic: 'if habit is a second nature, it prevents us from knowing our first.' What is habit? Do habits turn us into machines or free us to do more creative thin[...]
Of Habit (Häftad)
avFelix Ravaisson, Clare Carlisle, Mark Sinclair
ISBN: 9781847061980 - UTGIVEN: 200810Felix Ravaisson's seminal philosophical essay, Of Habit, was first published in French in 1838. It traces the origins and development of habit and proposes the principle of habit as the foundation of human nature. This metaphysics of habit steers a path between materialism and idealism in one of the[...]
