On Philosophical Style (Key Brand Blanshard epub On Philosophical Style (Key Brand Blanshard pdf download On Philosophical Style (Key Brand Blanshard pdf file On Philosophical Style (Key Brand Blanshard audiobook On Philosophical Style (Key Brand Blanshard book review On Philosophical Style (Key Brand Blanshard summary | #2876379 in Books | St. Augustines Press | 2004-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .23 x5.48 x8.55l,.29 | File type: PDF | 75 pages | ||15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| Top-notch advice from a master of philosophical prose style|By John S. Ryan|Brand Blanshard's prose style was itself a seamless implementation of the content of his philosophy: intelligible, clear, precise, and invariably suffused by what he called the "rational temper." In this book (really an extended essay) he offers helpful advice to would-be writers of philosophical pr||"In these few pages, Professor Blanshard has said the last word on style in philosophy. The reader is expertly conducted on a tour of inspection of all relevant areas, in and out of philosophy proper." (Virgil C. Aldrich, The Journal of Philosophy) |"Everythi
Originally given in 1953 as the Adamson Lecture at Manchester University, On Philosophical Style has become the classic presentation of the thesis that profundity and clarity are not opposed philosophical virtues but rather required companions. Blanshard begins with the question: Why is it that philosophers of great perception sometimes confess a failure to comprehend certain of their colleagues? He ends with the assertion "that the problem of style is not a problem of w...
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