Transcription of WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY - IAP
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WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY ? Studies in Phenomenological and Classical Realism General Editors: Josef Seifert and Giovanni Reale In What is PHILOSOPHY ? the distinguished philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand analyses the datum of knowledge itself in its different forms, from the most casual perception of some object in our na ve experience to "a priori knowledge," taken as consisting of absolutely certain insights into "necessary essences." Plato's central teaching about that kind of human knowledge which transcends the world of time and of becoming is here purified, clari-fied and deepened. Precise lines are meticulously drawn which distin-guish empirical knowledge, such as is found in the physical sciences, from a priori knowledge, as it can be attained in mathematics, logic and PHILOSOPHY .
Nazi ideology. Since the unsuccessful Hitler Putsch of 1923 on the Nazi hit-list, Hildebrand had to flee in 1933 to Austria. In Vienna, through a journal which he founded,4 Hildebrand fought uncompro-misingly against the Nazi-ideology, uninfluenced by any of his friends or by public figures and churchmen who tried to see some good points
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