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Conversations With an Unrepentant Liberal

English · Hardback

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In this book two philosophers, Simmias and Cebes, who were friends and contemporaries of Plato's continue their discussions of life and death and religion in this current year of crisis. Beginning in a railway station in Boston and continuing on through Providence and New Haven, they argue the eternal problems of what truth is and whether liberalism, with its concern for human reason, its tolerance of people who disagree with it, has much of a place in a world of totalitarianism and war, of Freud with his irrational subconscious and the atomic bomb with its fury. In an amusing and searching scrutiny of the liberals and their opponents Mr. Bixler analyzes through his two heroes the principal modern philosophies that are grappling with the ills of the world, and he demonstrates a considerable area of agreement between their opposing views.


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Authors Julius Seelye Bixler
Publisher Yale University Press Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.2008
 
EAN 9780300135848
ISBN 978-0-300-13584-8
No. of pages 128
Series The Terry Lectures
The Terry Lectures Series
Subjects Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

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