Mystery and Intelligibility - 9780813234182

Mystery and IntelligibilityHistory of Philosophy As Pursuit of Wisdom\nAuthor(s): Jeffrey Dirk Wilson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The Catholic University of America Press, United States\nImprint: The Catholic University of America Press\nISBN-13: 9780813234182, 978-0813234182\nSynopsis\nPhilosophy is born in its history as pursuit of the wisdom we are never able fully to know. Mystery and Intelligibility: History of Philosophy as Pursuit of Wisdom both argues for that method and presents the results it can achieve.\n\nEditor Jeffrey Dirk Wilson has gathered essays from six philosophical luminaries. In History, Philosophy, and the History of Philosophy, Timothy B. Noone provides the volumes discourse on method in which he distinguishes three tiers of history. History of philosophy as method occupies the third and highest tier. John Rist reckons with contemporary corruption of the method in A Guide for the Perplexed or How to Present or Pervert the History of Philosophy. Wilsons own .