G. K. Chesterton : Philosopher Without Portfolio / Quentin Lauer.
Lauer, Quentin, author.
2021
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Title G. K. Chesterton : Philosopher Without Portfolio / Quentin Lauer.
Author Lauer, Quentin, author.
ISBN 9780823295753
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823295753
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]
Copyright ©2004
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (191 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823295753 doi
Summary It is an indisputable fact that the credentials of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) were by no means those of a professional philosopher. He had no degree in the subject and he never attended a university. Nor was he widely or deeply read in the tradition of Western philosophy. He was, nonetheless, a truly philosophical thinker: convincing, persuasive, provocative, controversial. Despite all this, no one has, up to the present, devoted an entire book to the examination and analysis of his properly philosophical thinking and writing.This book attempts to range far and wide in the writings of Chesterton, perhaps even to betray him slightly by trying to systematize his thought. It is, however, not betraying Chesterton to claim that there is one central theme around which all his thinking and writing can be ordered: the theme of the grandeur of the reality of human, created in the image of God and participating in the beauty of divine creativity. His philosophy, if we want to characterize it in any one way, is a philosophy of life, of human living, with all that implies of rationality and freedom, of truth and paradox, of religion and morality, or faith and hope and love-in short, of all that makes human living spectacularly worthwhile.
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1 Chesterton as Philosopher
2 The Appeal to Reason
3 In Quest of Value
4 The Superstitions of Science
5 Social Thought
6 Chesterton's Christian Humanism
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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