The theoretic life - a classical ideal and its modern fate : reflections on the liberal arts /
In this work, Alexander Rosenthal Pubul presents a broad examination of the ancient philosophical question "What is the good life?" while addressing how the liberal arts can help us to answer this question. Greek philosophy distinguished between the "noble" (what is good in itsel...
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Cham, Switzerland :
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[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The emergence of the theoretic life in classical Greek philosophy
- The new barbarism: the contest between classical humanist culture and techno-economic pragmatism
- In pursuit of the noble: the classical birth of the liberal arts
- The political and the theoretic life - the challenge of Socrates
- Aristotelian teleology: the bridge between natural philosophy and the problem of "the good life"
- The Aristotelian revolution: the autonomy of the theoretic life and the dream of universal science
- Part II. The Baconian revolt against Greek theoria and the modern birth of the technological mind
- The rebirth of time: Sir. Francis Bacon and the origins of modernity
- Bacon's new magic: the transfigured aim of the sciences
- Technology displaces metaphysics - Bacon's new hierarchy of the arts and sciences
- Breaking Aristotle's bridge: the modern philosophical critique of teleology
- The enlightenment as a Baconian revolution
- Metaphysics dethroned: Hume, Kant, and the "self-limitation of reason"
- Progressivism, commerce, and the triumph of machine civilization
- The classical ideal of high culture in the democratic age
- The theoretic life and the challenge of American pragmatism: Dewey and the Greeks in contention
- A reply to Dewey
- The contemporary crisis of the humanities: the attack on the Western canon and the long arm of Nietzsche, Marx, and Foucault
- The new Protrepticus: a concluding exhortation to the theoretic life.