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The cave and the light, Plato versus Aristotle and the struggle for the soul of Western civilization, Arthur Herman

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The cave and the light, Plato versus Aristotle and the struggle for the soul of Western civilization, Arthur Herman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The cave and the light

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

859845813

Responsibility statement

Arthur Herman

Sub title

Plato versus Aristotle and the struggle for the soul of Western civilization

Table Of Contents

The first philosopher -- The soul of reason -- The mind of God -- The doctor's son -- Good citizen or philosopher king? -- The inheritors : philosophy in the Hellenistic age -- Knowledge is power -- Hole in the soul : Plato and Aristotle in Rome -- Dancing in the light -- Christ is come : Platonism and Christianity -- Ward the Heavenly City -- Inquiring minds : Aristotle strikes back -- Celestial harmonies : Plato in the Middle Ages -- At the summit : Arabs, Aristotle, and Saint Thomas Aquinas -- The razor's edge -- The paradoxes of liberty -- The creative ascent : Plato in the high Renaissance -- Twilight of the scholastics : the Reformation and the doom of Aristotle -- Secrets of the heavens : Plato, Galileo, and the new science -- Aristotle's periwig : the culture of the enlightenment -- Starting over : Plato, Rousseau, and revolution -- "Feeling is all" : the triumph of the Romantics -- Victorian crossroads : Hegel, Marx, and Mill -- The scale of nature : Darwin, evolution, and the mind of Aristotle

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