The Ancients and the Moderns: Rethinking Modernity Foy

The Ancients and the Moderns: Rethinking Modernity FoyIn this insightful and controversial book, Rosen takes a new look at the famous "quarrel" that the moderns have with the ancients, analyzing and comparing ancient philosophers and modern Continental and analytical thinkers from Plato, Descartes, and Kant to Fichte, Nietzsche, and Rorty. He urges that we not dismiss the classical heritage but appropriate it, for this appropriation is an indispensable step in the process of legitimizing our historical

the nature of the intellect

cleansing water to course through your heart and mind

games and simple crafts

Europe's Catholic kings

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the Shepherd of Hermas

the role of the Guardian Angels--and of the devils

This detailed commentary on the action and argument of Sophocles' Antigone is meant to be a reflection on and response to Hegel's interpretation in the Phenomenology (VI

'Creation itself'

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Michael the Archangel

Steven Schloeder examines this question in depth with regard to history