God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition

✍ Scribed by Alasdair MacIntyre

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Alasdair MacIntyre has written a selective history of the Catholic philosophical tradition, designed to show how belief in God informed and informs philosophical enquiry in different historical and social settings.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
GOD, PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITIES......Page 10
Ch01. God......Page 12
Ch02. Philosophy......Page 16
Ch03. God and philosophy......Page 20
Ch04. God, philosophy, universities......Page 22
PROLOGUES TO THE CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION......Page 26
Ch05. Augustine......Page 28
Ch06. Boethius, the Pseudo-Dionysius, and Anselm......Page 40
Ch07. The Islamic and Jewish Prologue to Catholic Philosophy......Page 50
Ch08. The Genesis of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition......Page 68
AQUINAS AND AFTER......Page 78
Ch09. Aquinas: Philosophy and Our Knowledge of God......Page 80
Ch10. Aquinas: Philosophy and the Life of Practice......Page 94
Ch11. Aquinas: God, philosopy, universities......Page 100
Ch12. After Aquinas: Scotus and Ockham......Page 104
THE THRESHOLD OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY......Page 110
Ch13. From Scholasticism to Skepticism......Page 112
Ch14. Descartes, Pascal, and Arnauld......Page 120
MODERNITY......Page 136
Ch15. The Catholic Absence From and Return to Philosophy, 1700–1850......Page 138
Ch16. Newman: God, philosophy, universities......Page 152
Ch17. From Aeterni Patris to Fides et Ratio......Page 158
Ch18. Fides et Ratio: The Catholic Philosophical Tradition Redefined......Page 172
Ch19. Now: universities, philosophy, God......Page 180
Index......Page 188
About the Author......Page 200