{"product_id":"recent-philosophy-volume-2","title":"Recent Philosophy, Volume 2","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"s1\"\u003eBy Étienne Gilson, T\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"s1\"\u003ehomas Langan, and A\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"s1\"\u003ermand Maurer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"s2\"\u003e, C\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"s3\"\u003e.S.B.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePhilosophy contends\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003ewith the ultimate questions the human mind can ask. In\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRecent Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, Étienne Gilson, Thomas Langan, and Armand Maurer, C.S.B., present the approaches and answers to those questions by the foremost philosophers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Like its published companions in the History of Philosophy series (\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMedieval Philosophy\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eModern Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e),\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRecent Philosophy\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eavoids the trap of becoming an encyclopedia of names and dates, producing instead an emphatically doctrinal chronicle of post-modern philosophical activity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMuch more important than knowledge about philosophy is a true notion \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eof what it is to philosophize. And what better way is there to learn \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eto philosophize than to observe the great philosophers of the past?\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(Étienne Gilson)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"s2\"\u003eVolume Two comprises Armand Maurer’s studies of (1) English philosophy, covering Bentham and Mill and the emergence of utilitarianism; the advent of evolutionism via Darwin and Spencer; the continued development of idealism under the auspices of Coleridge; the return to realism ushered in by G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, and A. N. Whitehead; and the intersection of linguistics and metaphysics, especially in the work of Wittgenstein; and (2) American philosophy, from its beginning of “philosophizing divines,” through New England Transcendentalism and the American takes on idealism and realism, and, finally, the stark world of pragmatism envisioned by William James and John Dewey.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eÉtienne Gilson\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(1884–1978) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy. One of the premier Catholic intellectuals of the twentieth century, he was founder of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, member of the Académie française, and author of more than one hundred seventy books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThomas Langan\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(1929–2012) was an American philosopher and staunch proponent of the Catholic intellectual tradition. His writings include numerous books on existentialism and phenomenology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArmand A. Maurer, C.S.B.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(1915–2008), was an American philosopher and a Roman Catholic priest in the Congregation of Saint Basil. Appointed to the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in 1949, he spent the remainder of his career and life there, devoted to both teaching and scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 384\u003c\/span\u003epp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e978-1685952082\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlso available:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #cc7722;\" data-mce-style=\"color: #cc7722;\"\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"color: #cc7722;\" href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/recent-philosophy-volume-2\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/recent-philosophy-volume-2\" data-mce-style=\"color: #cc7722;\"\u003eVolume 1\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100036981103,"sku":"978-1685952082","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/Product176.jpg?v=1781124812","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/recent-philosophy-volume-2","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}