The Arrow that flies by day : existential images ot the human condition from Socrates to Hannah Arendt / Bernard Murchland
Seeking the good life: Socrates' erotic revolution -- At home in the universe: the Stoics as Existentialists -- Senses of the self: Augustine and the ascent of the soul -- Overcoming alienation: Rousseau's search for authenticity -- Becoming who we are: Kierkegaard against his age (and our...
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| Main Authors: | Murchland, Bernard (Author) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Lanham, Md. [u.a.] : Univ. Press of America, 2008 |
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| Summary: | Seeking the good life: Socrates' erotic revolution -- At home in the universe: the Stoics as Existentialists -- Senses of the self: Augustine and the ascent of the soul -- Overcoming alienation: Rousseau's search for authenticity -- Becoming who we are: Kierkegaard against his age (and ours) -- Single in the crowd: Thoreau's existential experiment at Walden Pond -- No short cut to Paradise: the lonely passion of William James -- Beyond Nihilism: Nietzsche and the ethics of utopia -- Between solitude and solidarity: the two worlds of Albert Camus -- The desire to be God: Sartre and the winding roads of freedom -- Dramatist of a broken world: the soft theism of Gabriel Marcel -- Thinking without banisters: Hannah Arendt and the face of radical evil |
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| Physical Description: | XIII, 143 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780761840312 9780761840428 0761840311 0761840427 |
