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title: "The View From Nowhere"
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# The View From Nowhere

**Brand:** thomas nagel
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The View From Nowhere

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## Customer Reviews

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    a deep exploration
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 11, 2015*

The long and successful march of scientific and technical knowledge has introduced us to manifold viewpoints, many of which are quite alien to the comfortable or traditional views we grow to accept as the inner views of our lives.  These larger views transcend science in their significance as they impinge on our inner views and ways of thinking and operating in the world.  The result is an asymptotic view, a view from nowhere, that has gradually manifested itself in our cultural consciousness.  Prof. Nagel explores these inner and outer contradicting viewpoints, and especially within the context that these views are at least partially forced on us.  Simply adopting a highly personal inner view, or subjective view of life, or a highly detached impersonal view, or objective view, may seem to be extraordinarily appealing, but this appeal, according to Prof. Nagel, is illusory.  He thinks that we are caught in an ineluctable struggle within the context of these opposing views, with a result that life seems, at least in part, absurd.  This book is a brilliant, deep attempt to struggle with this conflict, by considering a multiplicity of arguments that arise once one accepts the conflict, and the curious necessity of having to accommodate, within one's individuality, the view from nowhere.  I find that he develops numerous somewhat complex ideas, and the result is that it has whetted my appetite to read more of his work.  He seems to be developing ideas that have an important bearing on contemporary life.

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    Great content
  

*by E***. on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 6, 2022*

The volume was efficiently delivered.  Nagel, with his cogent style and fruitful insights, never fails to deliver.

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    Related to the Stoics Ideal State of Being
  

*by L***. on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 25, 2012*

I was reading Paul and the Stoics by Troels Engberg-Pedersen and he was describing the ideal that a person should be striving for as a goal, and towards the "good life", according to Marcus Aurelius, who Troels is using for an example of a Stoic, since he wrote out a systematic description of those beliefs. The ultimate state to be in, as a result of those efforts at self improvement would be able to see things as one who was looking from above. Then Troes has a note describing discussions on this subject and suggested The View from Nowhere by Thomas Nagel, for a modern treatment. Really what it means from a Stoic viewpoint is what they thought of as seeing what was "real" and to find a "natural" way of fitting into that reality. Of course this is just my take on it from reading just this one book on the Stoics, plus studying Aristotle's Metaphysics for one day, and reading a good blog on Aristotelian philosophy. So, I thought I would expand my understanding of this idea by going ahead and ordering this book, by Nagel, trusting Troels as being a good and qualified person to make such a recommendation. I placed my order, and when I read some of it, I can update this review, since it does not seem like there is a short time limit on editing them.

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