'What does it mean to be a human being?' Given this perennial question, Alasdair MacIntyre, one of America's preeminent philosophers, presents a compelling argument on the necessity and importance of philosophy. Because of a need to better understand Catholic philosophical thought, especially in the context of its historical development and realizing that philosophers interact within particular social and cultural situations, MacIntyre offers this brief history of Catholic philosophy. Tracing the idea of God through different philosophers' engagement of God and how this engagement has played out in universities, MacIntyre provides a valuable, lively, and insightful study of the disintegration of academic disciplines with knowledge. MacIntyre then demonstrates the dangerous implications of this happening and how universities can and ought to renew a shared understanding of knowledge in their mission. This engaging work will be a benefit and a delight to all readers.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-05-16
Mått:166 x 242 x 19 mm
Vikt:472 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780742544291

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

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Alasdair MacIntyre is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He has written 16 books, including After Virtue, Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry, A Short History of Ethics, and, more recently, Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922.

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While not a work of academic philosophy—MacIntyre intends it for undergraduate seniors and first-year graduate students—this book can profitably be read by any reader of First Things. In fact, it should be so read, as either an introduction or a refresher to the great tradition, and then passed on to a friend.

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IntroductionGod, philosophy, UniversitiesChapter 1 GodChapter 2 PhilosophyChapter 3 God and philosophyChapter 4 God, philosophy, universitiesPrologues to the Catholic philosophical traditionChapter 5 AugustineChapter 6 Boethius, PseudoDionysius, AnselmChapter 7 The Islamic and Jewish prologue to Catholic philosophyChapter 8 The genesis of the Catholic philosophical traditionAquinas and afterChapter 9 Aquinas: philosophy and our knowledge of GodChapter 10 Aquinas: philosophy and the life of practiceChapter 11 Aquinas: God, philosophy, universitiesChapter 12 After Aquinas: Scotus and OckhamThe threshold of modern philosophyChapter 13 From scholasticism to scepticismChapter 14 Descartes, Pascal, and ArnauldModernityChapter 15 The Catholic absence from philosophy and the Catholic return to philosophy 1700-1850Chapter 16 Newman: God, philosophy, universitiesChapter 17 From Aeterni Patris to Fides et RatioChapter 18 Fides et Ratio: the Catholic philosophical tradition redefinedChapter 19 Now: Universities, philosophy, GodIndexAbout the Author