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The failure of modernism : the Cartesian legacy and contemporary pluralism / edited by Brendan Sweetman.

Contributor(s): Sweetman, Brendan
Material type: TextTextSeries: American Maritain Association publications: Publisher: Mishawaka, Ind. : American Maritain Association, 1999Description: 269 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0966922611; 9780966922615Subject(s): Philosophy, Modern | Descartes, René, 1596-1650 | Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973DDC classification: 149/.91 LOC classification: B791 | .F355 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Why Descartes was not a philosopher / Peter A. Redpath -- Descartes's res: an interactionist difficulty / Robert Geis -- Descartes, mathematics and music / Donald DeMarco -- Maximum influence from minimum abilities: la mettrie and radical materialism / William J. Fossati -- On the Aristotelian heritage of John of Damascus / Joseph Kotereski -- Transcendental Thomism: realism rejected / Christopher M. Cullen -- Was Maritain a crypto-Machiavellian? / James V. Schall -- Richard Hooker as source of the founding principles of American natural law / Edward Furton -- Neutral frameworks, the rule of law and the common good / Terry Hall -- Jacques Maritain and Alasdair MacIntyre: the person, the common good and human rights / Deborah Wallace -- Jacques Maritain, Thomism and the liber-communitarian debate / Michael Moreland -- On the purpose of the state: continuity and change in political theories / Henk E.S. Woldring -- Transcending right and left: a question of virtue / James G. Hanink -- Jacques Maritain, heroic humanism and the gospel / John X. Evans -- Deconstruction, onto-theology and Thomas's via negativa / Matthew Pugh -- The postmodern notion of freedom and Aquinas's ratio entis / John F.S. Knasas -- The pseudo-problem of skepticism / Brendan Sweetman -- A critique of social construct theory / Curtis L. Hancock.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why Descartes was not a philosopher / Peter A. Redpath -- Descartes's res: an interactionist difficulty / Robert Geis -- Descartes, mathematics and music / Donald DeMarco -- Maximum influence from minimum abilities: la mettrie and radical materialism / William J. Fossati -- On the Aristotelian heritage of John of Damascus / Joseph Kotereski -- Transcendental Thomism: realism rejected / Christopher M. Cullen -- Was Maritain a crypto-Machiavellian? / James V. Schall -- Richard Hooker as source of the founding principles of American natural law / Edward Furton -- Neutral frameworks, the rule of law and the common good / Terry Hall -- Jacques Maritain and Alasdair MacIntyre: the person, the common good and human rights / Deborah Wallace -- Jacques Maritain, Thomism and the liber-communitarian debate / Michael Moreland -- On the purpose of the state: continuity and change in political theories / Henk E.S. Woldring -- Transcending right and left: a question of virtue / James G. Hanink -- Jacques Maritain, heroic humanism and the gospel / John X. Evans -- Deconstruction, onto-theology and Thomas's via negativa / Matthew Pugh -- The postmodern notion of freedom and Aquinas's ratio entis / John F.S. Knasas -- The pseudo-problem of skepticism / Brendan Sweetman -- A critique of social construct theory / Curtis L. Hancock.

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