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1 online resource |
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Chapter 1 Ancient Greek Love of Wisdom -- Socrates and the Desire for Self-Knowledge -- Socrates' Program -- Ignorance and Love -- The Socratic Question -- I.2. Plato's Love of Wisdom: Desire for Liberation that Reaches the Divine -- The Forms and the Soul -- The Continuity and Confusion of Love -- The Order of the Soul -- Virtue as Unity and as a Way of Life -- The Soul as Lover -- I.3. Aristotle's Love of Wisdom: Desire for Actualization according to Form -- The Desire to Know -- The Basic Question -- Change, Form, and Actualization -- The Human Form and Knowledge -- The Goal of the Human Form -- Excellence and Desire for Actualization -- Wisdom as the Highest Mode of Actualization -- I.4. The Core of Ancient Greek Love of Wisdom -- chapter 2 Medieval Love of Wisdom -- II. 1. Medieval Platonic Love of Wisdom: Augustine -- The Insufficiency of Practical Philosophy -- The Insufficiency of Speculative Philosophy -- The Drive for Synthesis -- Love of Wisdom as Love of the God of Revelation -- II. 2. Medieval Aristotelian Love of Wisdom: Thomas Aquinas -- Aquinas' Own Drive for Synthesis -- The Background of Aquinas' Conception of Wisdom: Avicenna and Averroes -- Aquinas' Metaphysical Wisdom: A Synthesis of Aristotle and Neoplatonism -- Aquinas' Revised Aristotelian Love of Wisdom -- II. 3. The Core of Medieval Love of Wisdom -- The Common Core of Ancient and Medieval Love of Wisdom -- The Proper Core of Medieval Love of Wisdom -- chapter 3 The Modern Break -- Disparate Philosophical Loves -- III. 1. Descartes' Drive for Certainty -- The Exigencies of the Thinking Self -- The Self-Evidence of Thought -- Descartes' Procedure -- God as the Source of Certainty -- The Application of Clear and Distinct Ideas -- The Outcome of Descartes' Philosophical Desire -- III. 2. Hobbes and the Desire for Security -- Hobbes vs. Descartes on Certainty -- Hobbes' Account of Knowledge -- The Purpose and Value of Knowledge in Hobbes -- Hobbes Philosophical Desire with Reference to That of Descartes -- III. 3. Kant: Redefining Rational Autonomy -- Kant's Background: Newton and Hume -- Between Hume and Descartes -- Autonomy and Self-Knowledge -- The Drive for Moral Self-Determination -- Kantian Freedom -- Kant's Philosophical Desire -- Hegel's New Philosophical Wisdom -- Hegel's Critique of Kant -- Hegel's Modern System -- Hegel and Modern Philosophical Desire -- III. 5. Nietzsche's Affirmation of Life and Power -- Nietzsche's Scholarship -- Morality and the Will of Life -- Nietzsche and Philosophical Desire -- Nietzsche's Assessment of the Life Force with Reference to the Ancient Understanding |
| Summary |
What is philosophy? Why does it matter? How have philosophy and its relation to religion and science changed from the ancient to the medieval and modern periods and beyond? What are the central philosophical ideas, from Socrates to Nietzsche? Reexamining Love of Wisdom addresses these questions. It offers a new perspective by organizing the material under the theme of philosophical desire and shows the timeless importance of philosophy understood as the love of wisdom. Flores provides an historical introduction to philosophy suitable for college students that is a resource for more advanced students or scholars interested in the history and nature of philosophy. -- back cover |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 21, 2019) |
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Philosophy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Philosophy -- History.
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Wisdom.
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Philosophy
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Wisdom
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1498237630 |
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9781498237635 |
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