Title Swimming against the current in contemporary philosophy : occasional essays and papers / by Henry B. Veatch

Published Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©1990

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Description 1 online resource (x, 337 pages) Series Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 20 Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 20. Contents Introduction: On trying to be an Aristotelian or a Thomist in today's world -- QUIETING VARIOUS OF THE ALARMS AND EXCURSIONS IN RECENT PHILOSOPHY: Can philosophy ever be a thing for Hoosiers? -- Folly and sense in present-day philosophy -- Is Quine a metaphysician? -- Richard Rorty's would-be deconstruction of analytic philosophy -- WHAT PRICE ETHICS IN THE EYES OF MODERN MORAL PHILOSOPHERS? : Telos and teleology in Aristotelian ethics -- Variations, good and bad, on the theme of right reason in ethics -- Language and ethics: 'What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?' -- In appreciation and refutation of Alan Gewirth's principle of general consistency -- Ethical egoism, new style: should its trademark be libertarian or Aristotelian? -- A CONCLUDING MISCELLANY, RANGING FROM A DEFENSE OF THE HUMANITIES TO A DEFENSE OF NATURAL LAW: The what and why of the humanities -- Why need a general be human? -- The poor, hapless humanities -- Natural law: dead or alive? -- Can John Finnis bright of a revival of natural law? -- Natural law and the"is"-"ought" question: queries to Finnis and Grisez -- A poor benighted philosopher looks at the issue of judicial activism / Henry B. Veach Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-334) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2017 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century. Ethics, Modern -- 20th century. Humanities -- History -- 20th century Natural law -- History -- 20th century Philosophy, Modern. Ethics, Modern. PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General. PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Deconstruction. PHILOSOPHY -- Essays. PHILOSOPHY -- Reference. Ethics, Modern Humanities Natural law Philosophy, Modern Metallorganische Verbindungen Radikal Chemie Aufsatzsammlung Philosophie Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813230771 0813230772

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