Swimming against the current in contemporary philosophy : occasional essays and papers /

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Veatch, Henry Babcock (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©1990.
Series:Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 20.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: On trying to be an Aristotelian or a Thomist in today's world
  • QUIETING VARIOUS OF THE ALARMS AND EXCURSIONS IN RECENT PHILOSOPHY: Can philosophy ever be a thing for Hoosiers?
  • Folly and sense in present-day philosophy
  • Is Quine a metaphysician?
  • Richard Rorty's would-be deconstruction of analytic philosophy
  • WHAT PRICE ETHICS IN THE EYES OF MODERN MORAL PHILOSOPHERS? : Telos and teleology in Aristotelian ethics
  • Variations, good and bad, on the theme of right reason in ethics
  • Language and ethics: 'What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?'
  • In appreciation and refutation of Alan Gewirth's principle of general consistency
  • Ethical egoism, new style: should its trademark be libertarian or Aristotelian?
  • A CONCLUDING MISCELLANY, RANGING FROM A DEFENSE OF THE HUMANITIES TO A DEFENSE OF NATURAL LAW: The what and why of the humanities
  • Why need a general be human?
  • The poor, hapless humanities
  • Natural law: dead or alive?
  • Can John Finnis bright of a revival of natural law?
  • Natural law and the"is"-"ought" question: queries to Finnis and Grisez
  • A poor benighted philosopher looks at the issue of judicial activism / Henry B. Veach.