Synopses & Reviews
By reconstructing it and tracing its vicissitudes, David Conway rehabilitates a time-honored conception of philosophy, originating in Plato and Aristotle, which makes theoretical wisdom its aim. Wisdom is equated with possessing a demonstrably correct understanding of why the world exists and has the broad character it does. Adherents of this conception maintained the world to be the demonstrable creation of a divine intelligence in whose contemplation supreme human happiness resides. Their claims are defended against various latter-day skepticisms.
About the Author
David Conway is Professor of Philosophy at Middlesex University. His previous publications include
A Farewell to Marx and
Classical Liberalism. Table of Contents
Introduction * Philosophy Without Wisdom * The Classical Conception of Philosophy * The Decline and Fall of the Classical Conception * The Wisdom of the Book Revisited * Conclusion