The measure of things humanism, humility, and mystery

Cooper explores and defends the view that a reality independent of human perspectives is necessarily indescribable, a 'mystery'. Other views are shown to be hubristic: humanists exaggerate our capacity to live without the sense of an independent measure; absolutists exaggerate our cognitiv...

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Main Author: Cooper, David E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2007, 2007
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