Spirit and Man An Essay on Being and Value [Paperback]

One/Dimensions.- I. Consciousness.- a. Alertness.- b. Elucidation.- c. Spontaneity.- d. Cognition.- e. Self-consciousness.- f. Truth and self-consciousness.- g. Activity and structure.- h. Trends of consciousness.- l. Privacy and community.- k. Identity.- II. Experience.- III. Spirit and Principles.- Two/Features.- IV. On human Nature.- 1. Features are a topic for philosophical contemplation.- 2. Some factual features of human life can be understood only by referring to philosophical distinction.- 3. Cognition and posture.- 4. Environment and world.- 5. Education.- 6. Instincts.- 7. Language and learning.- 8. Learning.- 9. Tools.- 10. Historicity.- 11. Potentiality and individuality.- 12. The dynamic relation between factors.- 13. Anthropocentrism.- 14. Finiteness.- 15. The analysis is not too optimistic.- V. The linguistic capacity.- Three/Significance.- VI. Freedom.- a. The preference of the preferable.- b. Levels of freedom.- VII. The worthiness of Man.Nathan Rotenstreich, 1914-1993, was Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was the Rector of this University and the Vice President of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities.
Some of his well known essays are: Between Past and Present, Spirit and Man, Tradition and Reality, and Jewish Philosophy in Modern Times. Together with S.H. Bergman he translated Kant's three Critiques into Hebrew.Springer Book Archives