Half a century of philosophy

Philosophy Today | July 1, 1998| | Copyright

The following publication (...) has asked me to relate to its readers what has taken place in philosophical thought during the first fifty years ofthis century.1 Philosophical thought is a human task, but human tasks are not strictly speaking "things," as it were, but rather "things that happen to man"; they are events that happen to someone, unlike those brincadeiras that are called physical events that happen to no one. Nevertheless events that "happen to someone" cannot be properly communicated unless they are communicated in a narrative manner. Narrative reason or historical reason, then, ...

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