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Wretched Aristotle : using the past to rescue the future

Title: Wretched Aristotle : using the past to rescue the future / Jude P. Dougherty.
Author: Dougherty, Jude P., 1930-
Publication: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2009.

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Description

ix, 236 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The relevance of antiquity -- Wretched Aristotle -- Tom Wolfe's Epictetus -- Aristotle in North America -- Ora et labora : Benedict's legacy -- Ancients and moderns on the subject of property -- The ontology of the artifact -- The failure of positivism and the enduring legacy of Comte -- Judicial decision within the rule of law -- Modern interpretations of religion : the legacy of Hume and Kant -- Santayana on the role of religion in society -- Indestructible Islam -- Science and the shaping of modernity : the reciprocal influence of science and culture -- The use and abuse of analogy and metaphor in scientific explanation -- Morality with and without God -- Responsibility : recognition and limits -- National identity -- The fragility of democracy -- The socialist mind -- The natural basis of the theological virtue of hope.

ISBN

9780739140062
073914006X
9780739140086
0739140086

LCCN

2009025152

OCLC

ocn416140369
416140369
SCSB-9457413

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library