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Modern Philosophy : from Descartes to Nietzsche : an Anthology - Steven M. Emmanuel and Patrick Goold
Call Number: B791 .M66 2002
Between the earliest and the latest of the works included here, we have two hundred and fifty years of vigorous and adventurous philosophizing," Monroe Beardsley writes in his Introduction to this collection. "If the modern period can be only vaguely or arbitrarily bounded, it can at least be studied, and we can ask whether any dominant themes, overall patterns of movement, or notable achievements can be found within it. This question is one that is best asked by the reader after he has read, or read around in, these works." This Modern Library Paperback Classic also includes a newly updated Bibliography.
Philosophy - by Stephen Law
Call Number: B29 .L312
ISBN/ISSN: 0756626250
Philosophy of Religion - by C. Stephen Evans
Call Number: BL51 .E86 1985
ISBN/ISSN: 0877843430
Lessons of the Masters - George Steiner
Call Number: LB2331 .S74 2003
When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely what interests George Steiner in this book, a sustained reflection on the infinitely complex and subtle interplay of power, trust, and passions in the most profound sorts of pedagogy. Based on Steiner's Norton Lectures on the art and lore of teaching, Lessons of the Masters evokes a host of exemplary figures, including Socrates and Plato, Jesus and his disciples, Virgil and Dante, Heloise and Abelard, Tycho Brahe and Johann Kepler, the Baal Shem Tov, Confucian and Buddhist sages, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Nadia Boulanger, and Knute Rockne. Pivotal in the unfolding of Western culture are Socrates and Jesus, charismatic masters who left no written teachings, founded no schools. In the efforts of their disciples, in the passion narratives inspired by their deaths, Steiner sees the beginnings of the inward vocabulary, the encoded recognitions of much of our moral, philosophical, and theological idiom. He goes on to consider a diverse array of traditions and disciplines, recurring throughout to three underlying themes: the master's power to exploit his student's dependence and vulnerability; the complementary threat of subversion and betrayal of the mentor by his pupil; and the reciprocal exchange of trust and love, of learning and instruction between teacher and disciple. Description from the Publisher.
Transcendence and Self-Transcendence: On God and the Soul - by Merold Westphal
Call Number: BL51 .W3735 2004
Physician and Philosopher - Edmund D. Pellegrino
Call Number: R723. P443 2001
ISBN/ISSN: 0268038341