On Philosophical Style (Key Texts S.)

by Brand Blanshard

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Originally given in 1953 as the Adamson Lecture at Manchester University, this text has become a 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 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 words and sentences merely, but of being the right kind of mind".
  • ISBN10 0837119758
  • ISBN13 9780837119755
  • Publish Date 28 November 1969 (first published December 1954)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 7 July 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Greenwood Press
  • Edition New ed of 1954 ed
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 69
  • Language English