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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2003.
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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.