Embers and the Stars

Name: Embers and the Stars
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ISBN: 9780226450179

ISBN-10: 0226450171

ISBN-13: 9780226450179

Edition: 1987

Authors: Erazim Kohak

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"It is hard to put this profound book into a category. Despite the author's criticisms of Thoreau, it is more like Walden than any other book I have read. . . . The book makes great strides toward bringing the best insights from medieval philosophy and from contemporary environmental ethics together. Anyone interested in both of these areas must read this book."--Daniel A. Dombrowski, The Thomist "Those who share Kohák's concern to understand nature as other than a mere resource or matter in motion will find his temporally oriented interpretation of nature instructive. It is here in particular that Kohák turns moments of experience to account philosophically, turning what we habitually…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 6.50" wide x 8.98" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Prolegomenon



Theoria



Physis The Gift of the Night The Gift of the Word The Gift of the Moral Law



Humanitas A Human's Place in Nature Of Humans and Persons A Philosophy of Personalism



Skepsis The Shadow of Doubt The Spell of the Demon The Vertigo of History



Credo Nature's God and Mine Being, Time, and Eternity The Days of Our Years Postscriptum


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