| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
The quest for meaning/ Adriaan Peperzak. |
| Reminder of title: |
friends of wisdom from Plato to Levinas / |
| Author: |
Peperzak, Adriaan Theodoor, |
| Published: |
New York :Fordham University Press, : 2003., |
| Description: |
x, 240 p. cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Meaning (Philosophy) - History. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=113792An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1417534168 (electronic bk.) |