Swimming against the current in contemporary philosophy : occasional essays and papers / by Henry B. Veatch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Veatch, Henry Babcock, author.

Series:

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; Volume 20.

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; Volume 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Ethics, Modern--20th century.

Ethics, Modern.

Humanities--History--20th century.

Humanities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 337 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [1990]

Summary:

Looks at being a follower of Aristotle or St. Thomas Aquinas in a modern philosophical world.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: On Trying to Be an Aristotelian or a Thomist in Today's World

Part I. Quieting Various of the Alarms and Excursions in Recent Philosophy

1. Can Philosophy Ever Be a Thing for Hoosiers?

2. Folly and Sense in Present-Day Philosophy

3. Is Quine a Metaphysician?

4. Richard Rorty's Would-Be Deconstruction of Analytic Philosophy

Part II. What Price Ethics in the Eyes of Modern Moral Philosophyers?

5. Telos and Teleology in Aristotelian Ethics

6. Variations, Good and Bad, on the Theme of Right Reason in Ethics

7. Language and Ethics: "What's Hecuba to Him, or He to Hecuba?

8. In Appreciation and Refutation of Alan Gewirth's Principle of Generic Consistency

9. Ethical Egoism, New Style: Should Its Trademark Be Libertarian or Aristotelian?

Part III. A Concluding Miscellany, Ranging From a Defense of the Humanities to a Defense of Natural Law

10. The What and the Why of the Humanities

11. Why Need a General Be Human?

12. The Poor, Hapless Humanities

13. Natural Law: Dead or Alive?

14. Can John Finnis Bring Off a Revival of Natural Law?

15. Natural Law and the "Is-"Ought" Question: Queries to Finnis and Grisez

16. A Poor Benighted Philosopher Looks at the Issue of Judicial Activism

Select Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8132-3077-2

OCLC:

1032070903