The Great ideas today, 1973
By: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc
Contributors: Dorfman, Ronald; Pieper, Josef, 1904-1997; Boyum, Joy Gould, 1934-; Hook, Sidney, 1902-1989; Potok, Chaim; Jones, W. T. (William Thomas), 1910-; Kalven, Harry; Gingerich, Owen; Van Doren, Charles Lincoln, 1926-; Blum, Walter J.; Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc
Publisher: H.H. Benton; Distributed to the trade by Praeger
Published: 1973
Place of publication: [Chicago]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 473
ISBN-13: 9780852292860
Subjects: Heroes
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: I. The hero and the heroic ideal : a symposium. The hero and the heroic ideal in Great books of the western world. We must have heroes / S.L.A. Marshall; title: No more heroes / Ron Dorfman; title: Heroism and fortitude / Josef Pieper; title: Heroes in black and white / Joy Gould Boyum; title: The hero as a world figure / Sidney Hook; title: Heroes for an ordinary world / Chaim Potok. II. The widening gyre : philosophy in the twentieth century / W.T. Jones; title: The anatomy of justice in taxation / Walter J. Blum and Harry Kalven, Jr.; title: A fresh look at Copernicus / Owen Gingerich. IV. The idea of freedom, part two / Charles Van Doren.