The four dimensions of philosophy : metaphysical, moral, objective, categorical
In Greek and Roman antiquity, philosophy was supreme in the domain of learning. Philosophy was the name for the pursuit of truth about the most fundamental things to be known or understood. It was the most desirable of all the goods of the mind. But today we live in an age dominated by science and technology - an age that has witnessed not only the rise of positivism, but the retreat of academic philosophy to an analysis of language. Professorial philosophy has become as specialized a subject as logic and mathematics. If anyone asks why we should be concerned with the intellectual respectability of philosophy, this book provides the answer
Print Book, English, ©1993
Macmillan Pub. Co. ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, New York, Toronto, New York, ©1993