The Quest For Meaning : Friends of Wisdom from Plato to Levinas / Adriaan Peperzak.
Peperzak, Adriaan, author.
2021
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Title The Quest For Meaning : Friends of Wisdom from Plato to Levinas / Adriaan Peperzak.
Author Peperzak, Adriaan, author.
ISBN 9780823296217
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823296217
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]
Copyright ©2003
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (240 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823296217 doi
Summary One of our most distinguished thinkers, Adriaan Peperzak has masterfully explored the connections between philosophy, ethics, religion, and the social and historical contexts of human experience. He offers a personal gathering of influences on his own work as guides to the uses of philosophy in our search for sense and meaning. In concise, direct, and deeply felt chapters, Peperzak moves from Plato, Plotinus, and the Early Christian theologians to Anselm, Bonaventure, Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, Hegel, and Levinas. Throughout these carefully linked essays, he touches on the fundamental ideas-from reason and faith to freedom and tradition-that inform the questions his work has consistently addressed, most specifically those concerning philosophy as a practice.
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Preface
Instead of an Introduction
1. Philosophia
2. Why Plato Now?
3. Platonic and Christian Hope
4. Fulfillment
5. Anselm's Proslogion and Its Hegelian Interpretation
6. Ascent: Plotinian Motifs in Bonaventure's Itinerary of the Mind to God
7. Bonaventure's Contribution to the Twentieth-Century Debate on Apophatic Theology
8. Life, Science, and Wisdom According to Descartes
9. Philosophy and Christianity (An Hour with Pascal)
10. Leibniz on God and Suffering
11. Hegel and Modem Culture
12. The Significance of Levinas for Christian Thought
Epilogue
Works Cited and Editions Used
Index

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