

Warfield.ĭisciplines in the making : cross-cultural perspectives on elites, learning, and innovation / G.E.R. Beiser.ĭisagreement / edited by Richard Feldman, Ted A. The dilemma of freedom and foreknowledge / Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski.ĭiotima's children : German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing / Frederick C.

Brown.ĭignity, rank, and rights / Jeremy Waldron with commentaries by Wai Chee Dimock, Don Herzog, Michael Rosen edited and introduced by Meir Dan-Cohen. Batterman.ĭid my neurons make me do it? : philosophical and neurobiological perspectives on moral responsibility and free will / Nancey Murphy and Warren S. The devil in the details : asymptotic reasoning in explanation, reduction, and emergence / Robert W. The rationalist tradition deserves re-examination because it is of great historical significance, marking the beginning of modern aesthetics, art criticism, and art history.Developing the virtues : integrating perspectives / Julia Annas, Darcia Narvaez, and Nancy E. It shows that the criticisms of Kant and Nietzsche of this tradition are largely unfounded. It is partly an historical survey of the central figures and themes of this tradition But it is also a philosophical defense of some of its leading ideas, viz., that beauty plays an integral role in life, that aesthetic pleasure is the perception of perfection, that aesthetic rules are inevitable and valuable. It is partly an historical sur… More.ĭiotima's Children is a re-examination of the rationalist tradition of aesthetics which prevailed in Germany in the late seventeenth and eighteenth century.

Beiser, Frederick C.: Diotima's Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing - new bookĭiotima's Children is a re-examination of the rationalist tradition of aesthetics which prevailed in Germany in the late seventeenth and eighteenth century.
