TAKING PHILOSOPHY SERIOUSLY: PERFECTIONISM VERSUS MELIORISM PART 2

ПРИНИМАЯ ФИЛОСОФИЮ ВСЕРЬЕЗ: ПЕРФЕКЦИОНИЗМ VERSUS МЕЛИОРИЗМ. ЧАСТЬ 2

Amir, Lydia (Амир, Лидия) ()
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Amir, Lydia (Амир, Лидия): Tufts University

Sotsium i vlast / Society and power, 2017, 86-95

Abstract: The article gives an idea about new kind of attitude towards philosophy which lets consider it not only as an educational subject but as a form of spiritual practice outside university. The author analyzes the two philosophic traditions: perfectionism (“radical” philosophy) and meliorism (“moderate” philosophy). The thought moving from individual and concrete to general and abstract is one of the main means of philosophic practice. Intellectual and ethical functions of this dialectics define the principal instruments of philosophic practice.

Keywords: Philosophy; Philosophic practice; philosophic counseling; perfectionism; meliorism; ethic virtues; social interaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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