"Divine madness"
Subtitle: Plato's case against secular humanism
By: Josef Pieper ; translated by Lothar Krauth.
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 59
Subjects: Plato.; Humanism -- History and criticism.
Description: The interpretation offered here focuses on Plato's thesis, which at first sight appears strange and unrealistic, that those experiences that advance human life to its true fullness are bestowed on us only during a "god-given" state of "being-beside-oneself." This thesis is then resolutely confronted with our contemporary and above all psychoanalytical knowledge of man's nature, as well as with the Christian conception of man's existence, thus revealing its amazing, unexpected relevance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 59).