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The quest for meaning : friends of wisdom from Plato to Levinas /

Adriaan Peperzak has for many years explored the connections between philosophy, ethics, religion and human experience. An expert on Hegel, Heidegger and Levinas, he here offers a gathering of influences on his own work as guides to uses of philosophy in our search for sense and meaning.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Peperzak, Adriaan Theodoor, 1929-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2003.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:UPSO - Fordham University Press E-Books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Instead of an introduction
  • Philosophia. The question : Philosophia ; Philosophy as participation in history
  • Christians who philosophize : Faith ; Culture ; The philosophy of Christians ; Theology ; The "spirit" of philosophy ; Integration ; Modern philosophy ; Experience ; Autonomy of reason? ; Philosophia
  • Why Plato now? Diagnosis : Pleasure ; Authenticity and semblance ; The culture of semblance and pleasure ; Philosophy
  • Plato's ideal : Desire and desires
  • The philosopher in the city
  • Platonic and Christian hope. Hope in the Phaedo
  • Christian hope
  • Conversion
  • Fulfillment. The question
  • Christianity and Judaism
  • Christianity and "Greece" : Plato's ideal ; Metanoia ; Faith and theory ; Praeparatio Evangelica? ; Plato and Christ
  • Anselm's Proslogion and its Hegelian interpretation. Hegel on Anselm
  • Anselm
  • Anselm against Hegel
  • Two remarks
  • Ascent: Plotinian motifs in Bonaventure's Itinerary of the mind to God. Plotinus' travel guide to God
  • Bonaventure's guidance for the encounter with God : Creation ; History ; The one (chapter five) ; The good (chapter six)
  • Bonaventure's contribution to the twentieth century debate on Apophatic theology. Bonaventure and Apophatic theology
  • Desire for wisdom
  • The wisdom of the cross
  • Life, science, and wisdom according to Descartes. Philosophy and Christianity (An hour with Pascal). Philosophy
  • Theory and wisdom
  • Christianity
  • Christian and philosopher
  • Pascal's Memorial : The living God and the God of "philosophy"
  • Philosophy and belief
  • Can a Christian be a philosopher?
  • Leibniz on God and suffering. Suffering
  • Suffering and evil
  • Why is there evil?
  • The utility of evil
  • God and freedom
  • The God of Leibniz
  • The battle with God
  • Ignorance and acceptance
  • Toward peace
  • Hegel and modern culture. Hegel's framework
  • Freedom
  • Culture
  • Absolute spirit
  • Hegel Now?
  • Epilogue
  • The significance of Levinas for Christian thought. God
  • Salvation and the law
  • Mysticism and love
  • Death
  • Resurrection and forgiveness
  • Autonomy and heteronomy.