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100 1  Herman, Arthur, |d1956-
245 14 The cave and the light : |bPlato versus Aristotle, and the struggle for the soul of Western civilization / |cArthur Herman.
250    Random House Trade Paperback edition.
260    New York : |bRandom House, |c2014.
300    xxiii, 676 pages : |billustrations ; |c21 cm
337    unmediated
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [623]-642) and index.
505    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.
600 00 Plato |xInfluence.
600 00 Aristotle |xInfluence.
650  0 Civilization, Western |xGreek influences.
650  0 Philosophy, Ancient.
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