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Control # 1 2021018386
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20221129113834.0
Fixed Data 8 210419s2021 njua b 001 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 2021018386
ISBN 20    $a9780691199610$q(hardback :$qacid-free paper)
ISBN 20    $z9780691211244$q(ebook)
Obsolete 39    $a330779$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC$dGCG
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LC Call 50 00 $aBD418.3$b.Z34 2021
Dewey Class 82 00 $a128/.2$223
Other Call # 84    $aPHI009000$aPHI005000$2bisacsh
ME:Pers Name 100 $aZagzebski, Linda Trinkaus,$d1946-$eauthor.
Title 245 14 $aThe two greatest ideas :$bhow our grasp of the universe and our minds changed everything /$cLinda Trinkaus Zagzebski.
Tag 264 264  1 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2021]
Phys Descrpt 300    $axii, 263 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Series:Diff 490 $aSoochow university lectures in philosophy
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 229-247) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aThe Two Greatest Ideas: An Overview of the Narrative -- The World Precedes the Mind: The Primacy of the First Great Idea (First Millennium BCE to the Renaissance) -- The Mind Precedes the World: The Primacy of the Second Great Idea (The Renaissance to the 20th Century) -- The Moral Legacy: Autonomy vs. Harmony with the World -- Can We Grasp All of Reality? -- The Future: A Third Greatest Idea.
Abstract 520    $a"In The Two Greatest Ideas, Linda Zagzebski tells the history of two hugely impactful ideas and their crucial role in shaping human culture over the last two thousand years. These ideas, Zagzebski argues, underlie virtually all of the intellectual innovations of human civilization, yet are so simple they are almost invisible. The first idea is that the human mind is capable of grasping the universe. The second is that the human mind is capable of grasping itself. Based on a series of lectures given in 2018 at Soochow University, Zagzebski offers an ambitious, big-history narrative of the emergence and influence of these two ideas and the tension and conflict between them. The idea that the human mind can grasp the universe had a significant influence on culture in many parts of the world in the first millennium BCE, giving rise to physics, mathematics, philosophy, and most major religions. In the early modern period, however, particularly in the West, the idea that the human mind can grasp itself supplanted some of the wider focus and popularity of the idea that human mind can grasp the universe, revealing something important was missing, namely, the subjectivity of minds. This transformation was reflected in radical changes in philosophy, political thought, art, literature, religion, and science. In this book, Zagzebski provides a new frame for understanding the intellectual underpinnings of Western culture and thought through an illuminating exploration of the history and contemporary legacy of these two great ideas (including reflections on their history in Eastern thought). Zagzebski also reveals the deep roots of some familiar divisions in contemporary culture (e.g. autonomy versus harmony, and rights versus responsibilities) as they relate to the great ideas. The book then concludes with a discussion of what reconciling the two great ideas might entail, including the possibility of a third great idea."--$cProvided by publisher.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aPhilosophy of mind.
SE:Ufm Title 830  0 $aSoochow University lectures in philosophy.