Aims to expose the underlying confusion in most Western political and moral discourse. The book explains how what we call the 'Original Tradition' in Western thought has been replaced by a variety of alternative theories which are usually in unrecognized conflict with one another.
Aims to expose the underlying confusion in most Western political and moral discourse. The book explains how what we call the 'Original Tradition' in Western thought has been replaced by a variety of alternative theories which are usually in unrecognized conflict with one another.
Anna Rist is a writer, and former lecturer in Classics at St Michael's College, Toronto. She has published two books of English verse translations of the ancient Greek poets Theocritus and Herodas, an account of life in rural Tuscany (We Etruscans), a novel (The Chain) and a book of poems (Festival and Ferial). She is working on a second novel, a second book of poems, and a five-act play on Catholic Shakespeare.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Confusion introduced 2. Athens, Rome, Jerusalem 3. From Constantine to Henry VIII 4. Man enlightened: Montaigne to Kant 5. Totalitarian man: theory and practice 6. Scientistic humanism 7. World War, bureaucracy, consumerism 8. Sexual liberation and the subversion of the person 9. Personalism, virtue ethics and the original tradition 10. Culture, what culture? 2021.
1. Confusion introduced 2. Athens, Rome, Jerusalem 3. From Constantine to Henry VIII 4. Man enlightened: Montaigne to Kant 5. Totalitarian man: theory and practice 6. Scientistic humanism 7. World War, bureaucracy, consumerism 8. Sexual liberation and the subversion of the person 9. Personalism, virtue ethics and the original tradition 10. Culture, what culture? 2021.
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