What Is Philosophy?

by Dietrich von Hildebrand

Publisher:

Hildebrand Project

, 2021

Overview

A comprehensive new edition of Dietrich von Hildebrand’s foundational study in epistemology with an introduction by Robert Sokolowski. Hildebrand begins by analyzing closely the receptivity that is proper to all kinds of knowledge. As a result, he holds a robust philosophical realism according to which the mind does not impose its terms on the object known, but receives the object on the object’s own terms. Hildebrand’s What Is Philosophy? is perhaps the most significant and nuanced work we have that defends the position of realist phenomenology.

Product Details

• Title: What Is Philosophy?
• Author: Dietrich von Hildebrand
• Publisher: Hildebrand Project
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 254
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of; Phenomenology
• ISBNs: 9781939773173, 1939773172
• Resource ID: LLS:WHATISPHILOSOPHY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T21:07:14Z

About Dietrich von Hildebrand

Dietrich von Hildebrand (October 12, 1889 – January 26, 1977) was a German Catholic philosopher and theologian who was called (informally) by Pope Pius XII “the 20th Century Doctor of the Church. ” Pope John Paul II greatly admired the work of von Hildebrand, remarking once to von Hildebrand’s widow, Alice von Hildebrand, “Your husband is one of the great ethicists of the twentieth century.