The City of Reason / Samuel H. Beer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beer, Samuel H., author.

Series:

Harvard Political Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Philosophy.

History.

Reason.

Teleology.

Philosophy.

Political science--Philosophy.

Local Subjects:

Philosophy.

Political science--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2013

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction: I. The Problem of Purpose

Part One: Doubt of Truth

II. The Relativity of Truth

III. Creative Intelligence

Part Two: Doubt of Right

IV. The Relativity of Morals

V. The Ethics of Community

VI. The Ethics of Civilization

VII. Philosophy of History Against Itself

Part Three: Theodicy

VIII. One Power or Many

IX. The Search for Purpose: Nature Philosophy and Platonism

X. The Struggle for Existence: Judaism and Christianity

XI. Creative Advance

XII. A Saving Order

XIII. Faith and Morals

Conclusion

XIV. Politics

Notes

Harvard Political Studies

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-674-73326-6

OCLC:

1013960892