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4) On purpose
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xv, 294 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brief, accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the present. Can we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try? Kant thought we were stuck with it, and even Darwin's theory of natural selection, which profoundly shook the idea, was unable to kill it. Indeed, teleological explanation--what Aristotle called understanding in terms of "final causes"--seems to be making a comeback today, as both...
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