The cave and the light
Subtitle: Plato versus Aristotle and the struggle for the soul of Western civilization
By: Arthur Herman
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bantam Books; Random House
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 676
ISBN-13: 9780553807301
Subjects: Greek influences; Influence; Western Civilization; Ancient Philosophy
Description: A history of the influential rivalry between Plato and Aristotle traces the Western world's ongoing battle of ideas to their competing philosophies, demonstrating how their contrasting views on everything became the twin fountainheads of Western culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The first philosopher; title: The soul of reason; title: The mind of God; title: The doctor's son; title: Good citizen or philosopher king?; title: The inheritors : philosophy in the Hellenistic age; title: Knowledge is power; title: Hole in the soul : Plato and Aristotle in Rome; title: Dancing in the light; title: Christ is come : Platonism and Christianity; title: Ward the Heavenly City; title: Inquiring minds : Aristotle strikes back; title: Celestial harmonies : Plato in the Middle Ages; title: At the summit : Arabs, Aristotle, and Saint Thomas Aquinas; title: The razor's edge; title: The paradoxes of liberty; title: The creative ascent : Plato in the high Renaissance; title: Twilight of the scholastics : the Reformation and the doom of Aristotle; title: Secrets of the heavens : Plato, Galileo, and the new science; title: Aristotle's periwig : the culture of the enlightenment; title: Starting over : Plato, Rousseau, and revolution; title: "Feeling is all" : the triumph of the Romantics; title: Victorian crossroads : Hegel, Marx, and Mill; title: The scale of nature : Darwin, evolution, and the mind of Aristotle.