The Modern Age
By: James V. Schall
Publisher: St. Augustine's Press; St. Augustines Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: South Bend, Ind
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781587315107
Subjects: Ethics; Philosophy; Modern Philosophy; Theology
Description: At its beginning, every age has been "modern" We speak of "pre-" and "post-" modern ages. We are likewise tempted to identify what is most up-to-date with what is true. But to be up-to-date is to be out-of-date. If we find what is really true in any age, it will be true in all ages. This proposition is central to this book. Moreover, what is true will appear in different guises, as will what is false. The ";modern age"; had often considered itself relativist, or secular, or skeptical. It strove to divest itself of its theological and metaphysical backgrounds, only to find that the central themes from this tradition recur again and again, most often under political or even scientific forms. This book proposes to "see" these classical and revelational roots within their modern forms. But we also find the proposition that what exists is only what we make. We find no "truth" but that of...
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: on the nature of the "more" that is wanted; title: Art and philosophy; title: Why do we exist at all?; title: The truth philosophers search for; title: A Christian reading of the God of Abraham; title: The brighter side of hell; title: Judgment and modernity; title: What is "politics"?; title: Revelation and political philosophy; title: Actual regimes; title: Conclusion: the leisure to be still.