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Chapter 1 Ancient Greek Love of Wisdom -- Socrates and the Desire for Self-Knowledge -- Socrates' Program -- Ignorance and Love -- Socratic Question -- I.2. Plato's Love of Wisdom: Desire for Liberation that Reaches the Divine -- Forms and the Soul -- Continuity and Confusion of Love -- Order of the Soul -- Virtue as Unity and as a Way of Life -- Soul as Lover -- I.3. Aristotle's Love of Wisdom: Desire for Actualization according to Form -- Desire to Know -- Basic Question -- Change, Form, and Actualization -- Human Form and Knowledge -- Goal of the Human Form -- Excellence and Desire for Actualization -- Wisdom as the Highest Mode of Actualization -- I.4. Core of Ancient Greek Love of Wisdom -- chapter 2 Medieval Love of Wisdom -- II.1. Medieval Platonic Love of Wisdom: Augustine -- Insufficiency of Practical Philosophy -- Insufficiency of Speculative Philosophy -- Drive for Synthesis -- Love of Wisdom as Love of the God of Revelation -- II.2. Medieval Aristotelian Love of Wisdom: Thomas Aquinas -- Aquinas' Own Drive for Synthesis -- Background of Aquinas' Conception of Wisdom: Avicenna and Averroes -- Aquinas' Metaphysical Wisdom: A Synthesis of Aristotle and Neoplatonism -- Aquinas' Revised Aristotelian Love of Wisdom -- II.3. Core of Medieval Love of Wisdom -- Common Core of Ancient and Medieval Love of Wisdom -- Proper Core of Medieval Love of Wisdom -- chapter 3 Modern Break -- Disparate Philosophical Loves -- III.1. Descartes' Drive for Certainty -- Exigencies of the Thinking Self -- Self-Evidence of Thought -- Descartes' Procedure -- God as the Source of Certainty -- Application of Clear and Distinct Ideas -- Outcome of Descartes' Philosophical Desire -- III.2. Hobbes and the Desire for Security -- Hobbes vs. Descartes on Certainty -- Hobbes' Account of Knowledge -- Purpose and Value of Knowledge in Hobbes -- Hobbes Philosophical Desire with Reference to That of Descartes -- III.3. Kant: Redefining Rational Autonomy -- Kant's Background: Newton and Hume -- Between Hume and Descartes -- Autonomy and Self-Knowledge -- Drive for Moral Self-Determination -- Kantian Freedom -- Kant's Philosophical Desire -- Hegel's New Philosophical Wisdom -- Hegel's Critique of Kant -- Hegel's Modern System -- Hegel and Modern Philosophical Desire -- III.5. Nietzsche's Affirmation of Life and Power -- Nietzsche's Scholarship -- Morality and the Will of Life -- Nietzsche and Philosophical Desire -- Nietzsche's Assessment of the Life Force with Reference to the Ancient Understanding. |
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Philosophy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Philosophy -- Religious aspects. |
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Christianity. |
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Philosophy. |
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Philosophy -- History.
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History. |
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Wisdom.
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Wisdom. |
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Re-examining love of wisdom |
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Print version: 9781498237628 1498237622 9781498237642 1498237649 (DLC) 2016439710 (OCoLC)962377523 |
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1498237630 electronic book |
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9781498237635 (electronic book) |
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9781498237628 |
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1498237622 |
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9781498237642 |
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1498237649 |
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