| Description |
240 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
[1.] Discourses on philosophy: My philosophy -- Moral problem of our time -- Why we cannot help calling ourselves Christians -- [2.] Philosophy of politics: Unpolitical man -- State as friend and as enemy -- An essay in communist philosophy -- Note on the history of communism as practical politics -- Idea of classes as real entities -- Aristocracy and the masses -- Political truth and popular myths -- Liberalism and democracy -- Justice and liberty -- Liberty and revolution -- Theory of liberty once more -- Justice as a legal conception -- Peace and war -- Idealisation of war -- Patriotism: a disused word -- Denationalisation of history -- [3.] Problems of ethics and aesthetics: Intellectual life: morals and aesthetics -- Art as the form of pure knowledge -- Two profane sciences: aesthetics and economics -- Conflict of duties -- Manual work and work of the mind -- [4.] Philosophy of history: Providence or the 'cunning of the idea' -- History of ends and the history of means -- History of events and judgments of value -- In praise of individuality -- Proust: an example of decadent historical method -- [5.] Various thoughts: Sexuality and spirituality -- Our debt to thought -- The 'eternal problems' -- Eternal truth -- The 'final philosophy' -- 'Eternal life' -- Identity of philosophy and the moral life -- Soliloquy of an old philosopher. |
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