Entanglements

A System of Philosophy

Crispin Sartwell

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781438463889, 9781438463872
• eBook ISBN: 9781438463896
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Aesthetics in Philosophy

A work of maximally ambitious scope with a foundation in humility, Entanglements sets out a philosophical system of the sort rarely seen over the past century. In a discipline marked by greater and greater specialization and the narrowing of increasingly insular traditions and approaches, Crispin Sartwell has spent his career engaging widely across philosophical topics and texts. Here he brings together his philosophical positions in a unified system that is coherent across the issues and subdisciplines in the field. In addition to presenting his own theories of truth, knowledge, free will, beauty, and the political state, Sartwell's criticisms of other figures and movements provide an overview of the history of philosophy. The project of presenting an overarching philosophical system is a resolutely old-fashioned one, and in undertaking it, Sartwell is not only encapsulating an extraordinarily unique and productive career but also nudging philosophy back to its broader aims of explaining the world and our place in it.

Index

abduction, 131

abolitionism, 249, 360, 361–81

immediate, 362, 367

See also Garrison, Grimké, Mott

abstraction in art, 302–303, 323

actuality operator, 99–100

Adams, John, 361

Adams, Robert Merrihew, 245–48

addiction, 204, 241, 332, 380

Edwards on, 252–54

and freedom, 216, 229–38

aesthetics, 4–5, 25, 139, 193–202, chapter 5

centrality of, 291–93

distance or disinterest, 128, 284, 293, 307, 309

and epistemology, 291

and ethics, 291, 310

experience, 302–303

and gender, 312–19

and ontology, 291

pleasure, 273

and political theory, 291, 295, 383

properties, 199–200, 291–93, 302–303

and race, 312

in science, 140, 187–90, 200

scope of, 312

and the self, 219–22

and sexual orientation, 312–19

and squishy totalitarianism, 346–47

and truth, 85

Against the State, 293, 343

agency, 23, 25, 27, 165, 287

Aristotle on, 212–14

Louis Armstrong’s, 206–207

collective, 361

divine, 48

Edwards on, 252–54

epistemic, 182

Kant on, 212–14, 219, 227

Korsgaard on, 214–16

moral, 209, 229, 234, 244, 247, 248–50, 285, 287

political, 367, 38...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• I. First Philosophy: Reality, Truth, and Knowledge
• II. Axiology: Goodness, Beauty, and Liberty
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Index
• Back Cover