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Plato versus Aristotle and the struggle for the soul of Western civilization

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An edition of The cave and the light (2010)

The cave and the light

Plato versus Aristotle and the struggle for the soul of Western civilization

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Bantam Books, Random House
Language
English
Pages
676

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Subjects
Greek influences, Influence, Western Civilization, Ancient Philosophy, Civilization, western, history, Plato, Aristotle, Soul, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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The cave and the light: Plato versus Aristotle and the struggle for the soul of Western civilization
2010, Bantam Books, Random House
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Table of Contents

The first philosopher
The soul of reason
The mind of God
The doctor's son
Good citizen or philosopher king?
The inheritors : philosophy in the Hellenistic age
Knowledge is power
Hole in the soul : Plato and Aristotle in Rome
Dancing in the light
Christ is come : Platonism and Christianity
Ward the Heavenly City
Inquiring minds : Aristotle strikes back
Celestial harmonies : Plato in the Middle Ages
At the summit : Arabs, Aristotle, and Saint Thomas Aquinas
The razor's edge
The paradoxes of liberty
The creative ascent : Plato in the high Renaissance
Twilight of the scholastics : the Reformation and the doom of Aristotle
Secrets of the heavens : Plato, Galileo, and the new science
Aristotle's periwig : the culture of the enlightenment
Starting over : Plato, Rousseau, and revolution
"Feeling is all" : the triumph of the Romantics
Victorian crossroads : Hegel, Marx, and Mill
The scale of nature : Darwin, evolution, and the mind of Aristotle.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
909/.09821
Library of Congress
CB245 .H4286 2010, CB245 .H4286 2013, CB245.H4286 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
676

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25106686M
Internet Archive
cavelightplatove0000herm
ISBN 13
9780553807301
LCCN
2010008230
OCLC/WorldCat
436030180

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