By A. W. Carus
Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) is extensively considered as the most vital philosophers of the 20 th century. Born in Germany and later a US citizen, he used to be a founding father of the philosophical circulate referred to as Logical Empiricism. He used to be strongly inspired by means of a few diversified philosophical traditions (including the legacies of either Kant and Husserl), and in addition by means of the German early life circulation, the 1st international conflict (in which he used to be wounded and decorated), and radical socialism. This publication areas his principal principles in a extensive cultural, political and highbrow context, displaying how he synthesised many alternative currents of proposal to accomplish a philosophical viewpoint that is still strikingly appropriate within the twenty-first century. Its wealthy account of a philosopher's reaction to his instances will entice all who're drawn to the advance of philosophy within the 20th century.
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