The human voyage of self-discovery
Subtitle: essays in honour of Brendan Purcell
By: edited by Brendan Leahy and David Walsh
Publisher: Veritas Publications; [U.S. distributor, Dufour Editions]
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781847304308
Subjects: Catholic Church; Human evolution
Notes: Distributor from label on p. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A portrait of Brendan Purcell / Brendan Leahy; title: Introduction / David Walsh; title: The brazen contours of philosophical anthropology / Cyril O'Regan; title: Neanderthal politics / Barry Cooper; title: The wealth of persons: re-capturing a person-centered economic perspective / John McNerney; title: The role of conscience in the adventure of holiness according to blessed John Henry Newman / Thomas Norris; title: The rhetorical power of Socratic dialectic: Socrates' refutation of Gorgias / Emese Mogyoródi; title: Person and spirit / Fran O'Rourke; title: Existence and will: the political inheritance of William of Ockham / James Greenaway; title: Why chickens have no myths: Walker Percy on language and man / Gerard Casey; title: Refugee fidelists: teaching religion in a scientific culture / Eoin G. Cassidy; title: Merlewau-Ponty on sensibility, alterity and trace / Timothy Mooney; title: Eric Voegelin's use of metaphor / Glenn Hughes; title: 'Leafy-with-love': Patrick Kavanagh's 'canal bank walk' / Joseph McCarroll; title: Epic as the saving truth of history: Solzhenitsyn's Red wheel / David Walsh; title: Religious freedom and dialogue: the prophesy of Dignitatis humanae / Piero Coda; title: Chiara Lubich and the science of the 'why?' / Brendan Leahy; title: Brendan Purcell bibliography; title: List of contributors.