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Transcendent Apriorism

Pure Reason's Quest for the Noumenal

by Mark Robert Burgess
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Publisher:  Dissertation
Pub date:  2011
Pages:  296
ISBN-10:  1599423812
ISBN-13:  9781599423814
Categories:  Philosophy, Religion, and Theology  Philosophy  Language Arts & Disciplines

Abstract

The idea that the solitary thinker, using pure reason, can unlock the deepest mysteries of reality is certainly an exciting one. The rationalist dream began with Parmenides of Elea and became the epistemological foundation for the greatest metaphysical systems ever constructed. This thesis traces the complete historical development of this neglected epistemology and inaugurates a radical new appraisal of its method. The new clarity provides fresh insights into traditional puzzles like the Cartesian Circle and whether Plato had a secret esoteric doctrine. A new positive re-evaluation of a doctrine thought to have been refuted by Kant and the positivists will provide interest for students, philosophers and those interested in the history of ideas.

About the Author

Mark Burgess graduated from Strathclyde University in 1992 with an honours degree in Philosophy and English Literature. After obtaining his Masters degree in 1994, he completed a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Glasgow in 2002, and subsequently a PGCE from the University of Edinburgh. The author is now a full-time teacher at the Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School.



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