Reuben Abel (1911–1997)
Auteur van Man Is the Measure: A Cordial Invitation to the Central Problems of Philosophy
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Reuben Abel was born in New York. He had a distinguished career as lecturer, professor, and associate dean at the New School for Social Research in New York. He held membership in several philosophic organizations. Abel also held such varied jobs as department store buyer and president and toon meer treasurer of a bedspread company. Abel's interest in the work of F. C. S. Schiller resulted in his books The Pragmatic Humanism of F.C.S. Schiller (1955), and Humanistic Pragmatism (1966). Another book, Man Is the Measure: A Cordial Invitation to the Central Problems of Philosophy (1976), was an effort to bring an understanding of philosophy to ordinary people. He was also a contributor to The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Saturday Review, and various other philosophic books and journals. Abel died August 8, 1997, in New Rochelle, New York. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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- Larchmont, New York, USA
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- The New School (MA, PhD)
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In asking important questions about human nature and nature in general, Abel shows that Man truly is the Measure of all things. Take History as an example. With the subjective nature of history and the human predilection for storytelling, is it really possible to view Human History with an Objective eye? The book argues that you can't since all historians view history through a lens of their own experiences and personal situations.
There isn’t really much else to say about this book, I enjoyed it well enough. It did not go into depth with any analysis or ideas, but it did bring up a lot of themes covered by Philosophy.… (meer)