General Information

Author/Creator

Herman, Arthur, 1956-

Language

English.

Published

New York : Random House, 2014.

Physical Description

xxiii, 676 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Subjects

Subject

Plato > Influence.

Aristotle > Influence.

Civilization, Western > Greek influences.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Arthur Herman.

Content

Prologue: The School of Athens -- The first philosopher -- The soul of reason -- The mind of God -- The doctor's son -- Good citizen or philosopher ruler? --The inheritors: philosophy in the Hellenistic age -- Knowledge is power -- Hole in the soul: Plato and Aristotle in Rome -- Dancing in the light: the birth of Neoplatonism -- Christ is come: Plato and Christianity -- Toward 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 -- Aristotle, Machiavelli, and the paradoxes of liberty -- The creative ascent: Plato and the high Renaissance -- Twilight of the Scholastics: the Reformation and the doom of Aristotle -- Secrets of the heavens: Plato, Galileo, and the New Science -- God, kings, and philosophers in the age of genius -- Aristotle in a 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 Aristotle's God -- Unseen worlds: physics, relativity, and the new world picture -- Triumph of the will: Nietzsche and the Death of Reason -- Common sense nation: Plato, Aristotle, and American Exceptionalism -- Worlds at war: Plato and Aristotle in the Violent Century -- Conclusion: From the Cave to the Light.

ISBN

9780553385663

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	909/.09821 HER		OSA Repository	Donation of School of Public Policy.

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