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Author Veatch, Henry Babcock.

Title Swimming against the current in contemporary philosophy : occasional essays and papers / by Henry B. Veatch.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [1990]
©1990

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Description 1 online resource (x, 337 pages).
Physical Medium monochrome
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Series Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 20
Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 20.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-334) and index.
Contents Introduction: On trying to be an Aristotelian or a Thomist in today's world -- QUIETING VARIOUS OF THE ALARMS AND EXCURSIONS IN RECENT PHILOSOPHY: Can philosophy ever be a thing for Hoosiers? -- Folly and sense in present-day philosophy -- Is Quine a metaphysician? -- Richard Rorty's would-be deconstruction of analytic philosophy -- WHAT PRICE ETHICS IN THE EYES OF MODERN MORAL PHILOSOPHERS? : Telos and teleology in Aristotelian ethics -- Variations, good and bad, on the theme of right reason in ethics -- Language and ethics: 'What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba?' -- In appreciation and refutation of Alan Gewirth's principle of general consistency -- Ethical egoism, new style: should its trademark be libertarian or Aristotelian? -- A CONCLUDING MISCELLANY, RANGING FROM A DEFENSE OF THE HUMANITIES TO A DEFENSE OF NATURAL LAW: The what and why of the humanities -- Why need a general be human? -- The poor, hapless humanities -- Natural law: dead or alive? -- Can John Finnis bright of a revival of natural law? -- Natural law and the"is"-"ought" question: queries to Finnis and Grisez -- A poor benighted philosopher looks at the issue of judicial activism / Henry B. Veach.
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Subject Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
Philosophy, Modern.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Ethics, Modern -- 20th century.
Ethics, Modern.
Humanities -- History -- 20th century.
Humanities.
History.
Natural law -- History -- 20th century.
Natural law.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
History.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Veatch, Henry Babcock. Swimming against the current in contemporary philosophy. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©1990 (DLC) 88018940 (OCoLC)18070944
ISBN 9780813230771 (electronic book)
0813230772 (electronic book)
0813206812
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