The Autobiography of Philosophy

Auteur

Michael Davis is senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology. Among his publications are Conflict of Interest in the Professions (2001), Profession, Code, and Ethics (2002), Engineering Ethics (2005), and Ethics and the Legal Profession (2009).

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In making the condition for its own possibility its deepest concern, philosophy is necessarily about itself_it is autobiographical. The first part of The Autobiography of Philosophy interprets Heidegger's Being and Time, Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals, Aristotle's Metaphysics, and Plato's Lysis as examples of the implicitly autobiographical character of philosophy. The second part is a reading of Rousseau's The Reveries of the Solitary Walker.

Résumé
An interpretation of Heidegger's "Being and Time", Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals", Aristotle's "Metaphysics" and Plato's "Lysis" as examples of the implicitly autobiographical character of philosophy. It goes on to provide a reading of Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker".

Contenu

Chapter 1 Philosophy as Autobiography Part 2 Part One: The Question of Philosophy Chapter 3 Phenomenology and Philosophy: The Good of Being Chapter 4 Nietzsche's Genealogy and Philosophy: The Being of the Good Chapter 5 Philosophy and Wisdom: The Question of Being in Aristotle's Metaphysics A Chapter 6 Philosophy and Friendship: The Question of the Good in Plato's Lysis Chapter 7 Parabasis Part 8 Part Two: Rousseau's Life Chapter 9 Solitude and Society Chapter 10 The Fall Chapter 11 The True Morality Chapter 12 The Goodness of Truth Chapter 13 The Island of the Blessed Chapter 14 Authority Chapter 15 Beauty Chapter 16 The End of Suffering Chapter 17 Them Chapter 18 The Soul Chapter 19 Index