Reviews for The origins of Canadian politics

The average rating for The origins of Canadian politics based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-03-17 00:00:00 Kathryn Roche This collection of essays contains precisely what it says on the tin: modern (and I will add seminal) contributions to the attempt to build a epistemology (and from thence a philosophy) out of nothing but 'self-evident' first principles and axioms which are not and can not be further justified - they are the bedrock of thought and knowing - after the fashion of Leibniz, Descartes, Clark, Spinoza, and to a degree Plato, and against Aristotle and following empiricists/tabula rasists, idealists, and defenders of the partial a priori (which is then filled with sense experience) such as Kant. In short, for an axiomatic justification of knowledge as JTB (contra Gettier) and largely for an old fashioned correspondence theory against coherentists and Wittgensteinians. Also with a refutation of logical positivism (as if a new one were needed). There is no fancy system-building from first principles here, no Hegelian triad or attempt to deduce all of reality from the Monads of Leibniz: only an attempt to build a theory of knowledge and a corollary theory of truth using new principles and methods in defense of the old, unfairly rejected but never refuted school of axiomatic foundationalism.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-02-23 00:00:00 Apostolis Rountis You can tell that Peters is brilliant when reading this book; the problem is that I am definitely less brilliant and not well versed in this topic. It is definitely not a very easy read. I had to read each sentence about twice to get the gist of what he was saying, and even then I wasn't always sure, but what I did get was fairly interesting. I had to read this book for a class, otherwise I never would have finished it.