A Robert Spaemann reader : philosophical essays on nature, God, and the human person /

The German philosopher Robert Spaemann is one of the most important living thinkers in Europe today. This volume presents a selection of essays that span his career, from his first published academic essay on the origin of sociology (1953) to his more recent work in anthropology and the philosophy o...

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Other Authors: Schindler, D. C. (Editor, Translator), Schindler, Jeanne Heffernan, 1968- (Editor, Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A philosophical autobiography (1983)
  • Nature (1973)
  • The traditionalist error: on the sociologizing of the idea of God in the nineteenth century (1953)
  • Bourgeois ethics and non-telelogical ontology (1963)
  • From the polis to nature: the controversy surrounding Rousseau's First Discourse (1973)
  • In defense of anthropomorphism (2008)
  • On human dignity (1985)
  • Education as an introduction to reality: a speech commemorating the anniversary of a children's home (1988)
  • What does it mean to be cultured? (1995)
  • Natural existence and political existence in Rousseau (1965)
  • Individual actions (2000)
  • Being and coming to be: what does the Theory of Evolution explain? (1984)
  • The meaning of the "sum" in "Cogito Sum" (1987)
  • The undying rumor: the God question and the modern delusion (2007)
  • What does it mean to say that "art imitates nature?" (2007)
  • The end of modernity? (1986)
  • Bibliography
  • Index.