Overcoming Foundations : Studies in Systematic Philosophy - Richard Dien Winfield

Overcoming Foundations

Studies in Systematic Philosophy

By: Richard Dien Winfield

Hardcover | 31 October 2024

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First published in 1989, Overcoming Foundations offers a challenge to both postmodernism and traditional doctrines of knowledge and value by undertaking a systematic philosophy without foundations. United by a concern for overcoming foundations without overcoming philosophy, the essays in this book discuss a wide range of issues in epistemology and ethics, incorporating analysis of major thinkers of the past and present and drawing critically on Hegel's argument. The book unveils the dogmatic assumption of the futility of philosophy's traditional quests for universal truth and ethics and lays out the strategy for achieving autonomy of reason and valid norms of conduct without foundational appeals.

After examining how a critique of foundations can be executed without making new foundational claims, Winfield considers how philosophy must operate in order to think truth without given conceptual schemes and to achieve rational autonomy. Finally, the author explores the implications of a reason free of foundations for the history of philosophy and the debates embroiling contemporary thought. The essays outline an independent theory of justice, rethinking morality, and the structures of civil society and democratic government. Overcoming Foundations advances a much ignored philosophical alternative, a systematic contribution to epistemology, ethics, and social and political philosophy.

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"This is a fine collection of essays that presents an original and important point of view. There are few philosophers today who get inside the logic of Hegel's philosophy as well as Winfield and who are able to relate Hegel's arguments to both analytic and Continental philosophy... he... develops Hegelian arguments of his own and engages in active philosophical debate with an impressively wide range of other philosophical positions in order to prove the importance of Hegel's point of view... Winfield shows that Hegel's philosophy is very much alive today and can offer telling criticisms of analytic philosophy, pragmatism and hermeneutics, as well as liberal and Marxist political theory. Anyone interested in the problems of holism, relativism, and anti-foundationalism in contemporary philosophy will find these essays extremely valuable and challenging."

- Stephen Houlgate, De Paul University

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