[Intention]
Year:
1957
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Year of publication:
2000
Pages:
106
Moral assessment:
Type: Thought
Nothing inappropriate.
Requires prior general knowledge of the subject.
Readers with knowledgeable about the subject matter.
Contains doctrinal errors of some importance.
Whilst not being explicitly against the faith, the general approach or its main points are ambiguous or opposed to the Church’s teachings.
Incompatible with Catholic doctrine.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
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The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
Intention is one of the masterworks of twentieth-century philosophy in English. It has acquired the status of a modern philosophical classic. The book attempts to show in detail that the natural and widely accepted picture of what we mean by an intention gives rise to insoluble problems and must be abandoned.