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Download I Philosophy and Literature (338 KB)
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Publication Date
1949
Keywords
Philosophy
Disciplines
Philosophy
Description
The most important questions of our time are philosophical. All about us we see the clash of ideas and ideologies. Yet the formal study of philosophy has been losing rather than gaining ground. There is increasing interest in the issues, but up to the present there has been no corresponding increase in their systematic study. In many American colleges the work in philosophy attracts fewer and fewer students. Because philosophy is in the doldrums, I have wondered for some time what should be done to breathe into it fresh life. One idea that appeals strongly to me is to invite brilliant teachers in other fields to become students of philosophy and thus encourage a marriage of economics and philosophy, political science and philosophy, art and philosophy, and last but not least, literature and philosophy. This book is a kind of Exhibit A of this approach to the problem.
ISBN
1406744751
Recommended Citation
Ross, Julian L., "Philosophy in Literature" (1949). Books. 4.
https://surface.syr.edu/books/4
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
City
Syracuse
Additional Information
The full text has the entire content, and the individual files under it are chapters from the books.