{"product_id":"the-view-from-nowhere","title":"The View From Nowhere","description":"\u003cp\u003eHuman beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest  and consider the world from a vantage point that is  in Nagels words  \"nowhere in particular.\" At the same time  each of us is a particular person in a particular place  each with his own \"personal\" view of the world  a view that we can recognize as just one aspect of the whole. How do we reconcile these two standpoints--intellectually  morally  and practically? To what extent are they irreconcilable and to what extent can they be integrated? Thomas Nagels ambitious and lively book tackles this fundamental issue  arguing that our divided nature is the root of a whole range of philosophical problems  touching  as it does  every aspect of human life. He deals with its manifestations in such fields of philosophy as: the mind-body problem  personal identity  knowledge and skepticism  thought and reality  free will  ethics  the relation between moral and other values  the meaning of life  and death. Excessive objectification has been a malady of recent analytic philosophy  claims Nagel  it has led to implausible forms of reductionism in the philosophy of mind and elsewhere. The solution is not to inhibit the objectifying impulse  but to insist that it learn to live alongside the internal perspectives that cannot be either discarded or objectified. Reconciliation between the two standpoints  in the end  is not always possible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44959901253685,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195056442","price":54.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195056440.jpg?v=1770818116","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-view-from-nowhere","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}