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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Oxford ; New York :
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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.