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#gabitaykoRefEd (Maurice Blondel)

Impossibility of abstaining and of holding myself in reserve, inability to satisfy myself, to be self-sufficient and to cut myself loose, that is what a first look at my condition reveals to me. That there is constraint and a kind of oppression in my life is not an illusion, then, nor a dialectical game, it is a brute fact of daily experience. At the principle of my acts, in the use and after the exercise of what I call my freedom, I seem to feel all the weight of necessity. Nothing in me escapes it. If I try to evade decisive initiatives, I am enslaved for not having acted. If I go ahead, I am subjugated to what I have done. In practice, no one eludes the problem of practice; and not only does each one raise it, but each, in his own way, inevitably resolves it. It is this very necessity that has to be justified. And what would it mean to justify it, if not to show that it is in conformity with the most intimate aspiration of man? —Maurice Blondel

#gabitaykoRefEd (David C. Schindler)

Ours is a decidedly non-philosophical, even anti-philosophical, age. This is not to say that we lack “philosophers,” of a certain sort; indeed, we have only too many. There is probably no age in history that has as many “professional philosophers” as we do, with scores of new PhDs waiting to compete for every slot that opens in the philosophy departments of scores upon scores of colleges and universities. Outside of the academy, we have an even greater array of “professional thinkers” of every sort. There is the novel phenomenon of the “think tank,” an institution whose employees are not paid to produce any tangible goods, but simply . . . to think. There is the rapidly growing sector of “white collar” labor, made up of those who work with their minds rather than with their hands, as do the “blue collar” workers. This sector includes, not only those whose thinking remains tied to industry in some respect—advertisement, management, and so forth—but those in more “liberal” fields, such...

Books sorted (philosophy: Josef Pieper and Mircea Elidae)

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No Souvenirs: Journal 1957-1969 Mircea Eliade Autbiography I Mircea Eliade Autbiography II Mircea Eliade Faith Hope Love by Josef Pieper Leisure the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper  Bengal Nights by Mircea Eliade The Sacred and the Profane by Mircea Eliade   A History of Religious Ideas 1 Mircea Eliade A History of Religious Ideas 2 Mircea Eliade A History of Religious Ideas 3 Mircea Eliade The Myth of the Eternal Return Mircea Eliade Ordeal by Labyrinth Mircea Eliade Myth and Reality Mircea Eliade Imagination and Meaning Mircea Eliade  

Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Philosophical Porcupine

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Books sorted (Etienne Gilson)

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Thomist Realism Etienne Gilson  Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas by Etienne Gilson   The Spirit of Thomism by Etienne Gilson   Methodical Realism by Etienne Gilson Three Quests in Philosophy by Etienne Gilson Being and Some Philosophers by Etienne Gilson The Philosopher and Theology by Etienne Gilson The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy by Etienne Gilson The Unity of Philosophical Experience by Etienne Gilson  

Front Matter (foreword) Three Quests in Philosophy by Etienne Gilson

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Three Quests in Philosophy by Etienne Gilson Foreword [by  James K. Farge] This slim volume contains seven previously unpublished lectures by Etienne Gilson. [1] He delivered the first of them, “The Education of a Philosopher,” in Montréal in 1963. The next three, grouped under the title “In Quest of Species,” were delivered in Toronto in January 1972. Gilson composed the last three, which he titled “In Quest of Matter,” at his home in Cravant (Yonne), France ; but his advanced age and declining health prevented his travelling to Canada . He therefore sent them to Laurence K. Shook in Toronto with the hope that they might eventually be published. “That is why I am anxious to do the job,” wrote the late Father Armand Maurer, Gilson’s student and disciple, in 2006. [2] The first lecture was prompted when a group of students in philosophy at the Université de Montréal invited Gilson to speak at their inaugural “Semaine de Philosophie” on Tuesday, 19 March 1963. ...

Library booklist (H:cR)

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Shop Class as Soulcraft Matthew Crawford Thomist Realism Etienne Gilson  Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche  Source of the Self Charles Taylor  Philology James Turner  Religion Enters the Academy James Turner  Is There a Meaning in this Text? Kevin Vanhoozer  

Books sorted (philosophy 6)

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By Reason Alone by Bacz Jakez   The Puritan Smile by Robert Neville This Mortal Flesh by Brent Waters The ABC of Relativity by Bertrand Russell  Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism by Amintore Fanfani Can Ethics Be Christian? by James Gustafson    The Girard Reader Anthropology as an Aid to Moral Science by Antonio Rosmini 

Books sorted (philosophy 5)

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Athens and Jerusalem by Lev Shestov  50 Questions on the Natural Law by Charles Rice  The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich   Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead Great Dialogues of Plato  The Essential Erasmus  The Age of Ideology by Henry Aiken  Essential Marxism   The Reproduction Revolution edited by John Kilner Return to Reason by Kelly James Clark