First principles [electronic resource] : a return to humanity's shared traditions

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foy, Donald.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Values.

Local Subjects:

Values.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Publishing, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Foy explores the differences between the foundations of modernism and traditionalism, how those differences work, and what they mean. for our values and relationships: expectations within the family, how we view science, and the qualities we hold as virtue

Contents:

Table of Contents; I Where is the conflict?; II Rousseau, Two Lewises, and Mount Olympus; III Inversions, Gangs, and Gulliver; IV "Hobbs Was Right"; V Pinker's Unlovely List; VI The Selling of Personal Growth Divorce; VII Why Marriage Doesn't Translate; VIII The Invisible Hand as Pickpocket; IX The New Aristocrats; X Puzzled by Postmodernism; XI What are the First Principles?; XII The First-Principled Society; Afterword; Appendix I; Appendix II; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786610655861

0-585-49197-6

OCLC:

476114103