Living the Good Life presents a brief introduction to virtue and vice, self-control and weakness, misery and happiness. The book contrasts the thought of Aquinas with popular views, such as moral relativism, values clarification, utilitarianism, Kantian deontology and situation ethics. Following the Socratic dictum ""know thyself,"" Steven J. ......
The ""Jewish Question, "" the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory
German jurist and legal theorist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) significantly influenced Western political and legal thinking in the last century, yet his life and work have also stirred considerable controversy. While his ideas have been used and diffused by prominent philosophers on both the left and the right, such as Jurgen Habermas and Leo Strauss, ......
Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right
A compelling and necessary history of how the American conservative movement lost its philosophical compass-and why it must be recovered. In Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right, Stephanie Slade tells the story of a forgotten idea that once defined American conservatism. In the years following World War II, the ......
Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance - of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence - preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the idea of going unreasonably beyond what is reasonable that exercises fascination? In this wide-ranging work, essayist and scholar Steven Connor ......
Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance - of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence - preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the idea of going unreasonably beyond what is reasonable that exercises fascination? In this wide-ranging work, essayist and scholar Steven Connor ......
Themes in Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Dante, and Eliot
This collection of essays considers a variety of themes in philosophy, theology, and poetry, three ways of thinking that share a certain openness and comprehensiveness. The essays show how philosophy, theology, and poetry are ways of thinking in the medium of words-in large part in the medium of written words-against the background of all things ......
Examining journal drawings as an integral-and often delightful-feature of Thoreau's work In 1850, Henry David Thoreau began to draw in his Journal-a hedgehog's quill, a locust's wing, a goldenrod leaf. The sketches reflect his efforts to train his eye to observe more carefully, to look closely enough that he could see what was in front of ......
Examining journal drawings as an integral-and often delightful-feature of Thoreau's work In 1850, Henry David Thoreau began to draw in his Journal-a hedgehog's quill, a locust's wing, a goldenrod leaf. The sketches reflect his efforts to train his eye to observe more carefully, to look closely enough that he could see what was in front of ......
On the Construction of the Obvious from Antiquity to AI
Common sense is supposed to be so obvious it can go without saying. And yet, it has been hard to pin down, partly because its contents are vague and inconsistent, and partly because it has always been difficult to say what kind of sense common sense is. Making Common Sense is an historical account of attempts, from antiquity to the present, to ......
