Alasdair Macintyre

God, Philosophy, Universities (eBook, PDF)

A History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Three convictions underlie this book. The first is that an educated Catholic laity needs to understand a good deal more about Catholic philosophical thought than it does now. The warring partisans on the great issues that engage our culture and politics presuppose the truth of some philosophical theses and the falsity of others. Second, argues MacIntyre, Catholic philosophy is best understood historically, as a continuing conversation through the centuries, in which we turn and return to the most important voices from our past. Third, philosophy is not just a matter of propositions affirmed or denied but of philosophers in particular cultural and social situations interacting with each other in their affirmations and denials, in their argumentative wrangling.

This is the context for a book of vital importance and interest for anyone involved with education in a religious context. But from someone with MacIntyre's authority and reputation, the reader can expect something extremely perceptive about the role of religion in modern culture and society as a whole. The reader will not be disappointed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441172990
• Artikelnr.: 38301353

Autorenporträt

Alasdair MacIntyre is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics (CASEP) at London Metropolitan University, UK, and an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, USA. His publications include After Virtue (1981), Whose Justice? Whose Rationality? (1988) and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (1990).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction God
philosophy
Universities Chapter 1 God Chapter 2 Philosophy Chapter 3 God and philosophy Chapter 4 God
philosophy
universities Prologues to the Catholic philosophical tradition Chapter 5 Augustine Chapter 6 Boethius
PseudoDionysius
Anselm Chapter 7 The Islamic and Jewish prologue to Catholic philosophy Chapter 8 The genesis of the Catholic philosophical tradition Aquinas and after Chapter 9 Aquinas: philosophy and our knowledge of God Chapter 10 Aquinas: philosophy and the life of practice Chapter 11 Aquinas: God
philosophy
universities Chapter 12 After Aquinas: Scotus and Ockham The threshold of modern philosophy Chapter 13 From scholasticism to scepticism Chapter 14 Descartes
Pascal
and Arnauld Modernity Chapter 15 The Catholic absence from philosophy and the Catholic return to philosophy 1700-1850 Chapter 16 Newman: God
philosophy
universities Chapter 17 From Aeterni Patris to Fides et Ratio Chapter 18 Fides et Ratio: the Catholic philosophical tradition redefined Chapter 19 Now: Universities
philosophy
God Index About the Author