Curing mad truths: medieval wisdom for the modern age
The failure of the modern project -- Atheism at the end of the tether -- The necessity of goodness -- Nature -- Freedom and creation -- Culture as a by-product -- Values or virtues? -- The family -- Civilization as conservation and conversation.
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| Tipo di documento: | Stampa Libro |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
| Servizio "Subito": | Ordinare ora. |
| Verificare la disponibilità: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Notre Dame, Indiana
University of Notre Dame Press
[2019]
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| In: | Anno: 2019 |
| Periodico/Rivista: | Catholic ideas for a secular world
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| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Fede nella creazione
/ Scolastica
/ Ricezione
/ Orientamento ai valori
/ Critica sociale
/ Conservatorismo
B Etica delle virtù / Filosofia della cultura / Antropologia filosofica / Filosofia cristiana / Chiesa cattolica B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Humanity
B Civilization, Medieval B Philosophy, Medieval B Theological Anthropology Christianity |
| Edizione parallela: | Elettronico
Elettronico |
| Riepilogo: | The failure of the modern project -- Atheism at the end of the tether -- The necessity of goodness -- Nature -- Freedom and creation -- Culture as a by-product -- Values or virtues? -- The family -- Civilization as conservation and conversation. "In his first book composed in English, Rémi Brague maintains that there is a fundamental problem with modernity: we no longer consider the created world and humanity as intrinsically valuable. Curing Mad Truths, based on a number of Brague's lectures to English-speaking audiences, explores the idea that humanity must return to the Middle Ages. Not the Middle Ages of purported backwardness and barbarism, but rather a Middle Ages that understood creation--including human beings--as the product of an intelligent and benevolent God. The positive developments that have come about due to the modern project, be they health, knowledge, freedom, or peace, are not grounded in a rational project because human existence itself is no longer the good that it once was. Brague turns to our intellectual forebears of the medieval world to present a reasoned argument as to why humanity and civilizations are goods worth promoting and preserving"-- |
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| Descrizione del documento: | Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Descrizione fisica: | viii, 142 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 0268105693 |
