English Poetry - 18th Century - Literary Criticism, Modern Philosophy - General & Miscellaneous, Philosophy & Literature, Characteristics & Qualities - Self-Improvement, Truth, Emotions - Psychology
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Overview
Modern philosophers have not seriously considered the imagination as an avenue to truth, partly because those philosophers, particularly the British empiricists, have been preoccupied with external observations. Are there worlds within the mind, just as much as there is a fixed world without? Exploring these worlds may be a needed avenue to open us to a new appreciation of truth. William Blake is the poet renowned for his creative imagination. In examining his writings, one finds many messages about how imagination can offer us an insight into 'truth'. This work explores such a possibility, which Blake's writings have suggested, and which may offer a fruitful approach to truth today.
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Contends that vision and creativity must replace rational reductionism to address problems facing people in the next century. Discusses metaphysical assumptions of the modern world from the perspectives of the rationalists, the elimination of metaphysics and the empirical hope. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
December 4, 1997
Publisher
Lanham, Md. ; University Press of America, c1998.
Pages
112
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780761809210