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About eighty-five years ago, philosophers and literary
intellectuals as diverse as Edmund Husserl, George Santayana, and
Paul ValZry, aware of the declining influence of Christianity,
spoke of 'the crisis of Western civilization.' In Wretched
Aristotle: Using the Past to Rescue the Future, Jude P. Dougherty
offers an intriguing reexamination of this crisis in contemporary
times. Situating his argument in the context of ongoing debate
concerning the nature of the public philosophy that underpins ideas
of freedom, Dougherty identifies the essential features of Western
culture through a series of interrelated essays. Each essay
reinforces the idea that modernity cannot be understood apart from
its break with classical antiquity. Wretched Aristotle offers a
refreshing historical approach to this issue that will make it
appealing to those interested in the mutual influence of science
and culture and the role of religion in culture.
About eighty-five years ago, philosophers and literary
intellectuals as diverse as Edmund Husserl, George Santayana, and
Paul Valery, aware of the declining influence of Christianity,
spoke of "the crisis of Western civilization." In Wretched
Aristotle: Using the Past to Rescue the Future, Jude P. Dougherty
offers an intriguing reexamination of this crisis in contemporary
times. Situating his argument in the context of ongoing debate
concerning the nature of the public philosophy that underpins ideas
of freedom, Dougherty identifies the essential features of Western
culture through a series of interrelated essays. Each essay
reinforces the idea that modernity cannot be understood apart from
its break with classical antiquity. Wretched Aristotle offers a
refreshing historical approach to this issue that will make it
appealing to those interested in the mutual influence of science
and culture and the role of religion in culture."
In his newest work, distinguished philosopher Jude P. Dougherty
challenges contemporary empiricisms and other accounts of science
that reduce it to description and prediction. Dougherty argues that
a philosophy of science is but a part of oneâs overarching
metaphysical outlook, itself painstakingly derived from
considerations of nature, law, intelligibility, causality, and
inference. This book critically examines several well-known
philosophical positions from a time-transcending Aristotelian point
of view. It defends an Aristotelian or ârealistâ interpretation
of science, employing the textual Aristotle as commented upon and
amplified through the centuries. The book shows that although
modernity has offered a significant challenge, only a realist
interpretation of science is compatible with the advances made in
theoretical physics since the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth
century. Dougherty discusses the so-called âsciences of man,â
their starting points, and limitations.
Becoming What We Are is a collection of essays and reviews written
in the last decade by the late Jude Dougherty, which covey a
perspective on contemporary events and literature, written from a
classical and Christian perspective. These essays convey a
worldview much in need of restating when, according to Dougherty,
Western society seems to have lost its bearings, in its legislative
assemblies and in its judicial systems as well. Dougherty writes as
a philosopher, specifically as one who has devoted most of his life
to the study of metaphysics. In these pages Dougherty examines the
Jacobians, the empirical world of Hume, Locke and Hobbes, and Kant,
the metaphysics of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Aquinas that
opens one to God and provides one with a moral compass, and
critiques the work of Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and John Dewey.
Becoming What We Are spends some time inquiring into the character
of a few great men viz. George Washington, Charles De Gaulle and
Moses Maimonides. Dougherty draws upon and shows respect for
numerous contemporary authors who are engaged in research and
analysis similar to his. The intent is, with the aid of others to
restate some ancient but neglected truths. But more than that to
show that true science is possible, that nature and human nature
yield to human enquiry, that science is not to be confused with
description and prediction.
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Ratio et Fides (Hardcover)
Robert E Wood; Foreword by Jude P. Dougherty
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Catholic University Of America, Philosophical Series, No 197,
Abstract No. 47.
Jacques Maritain (1882-1973), one of the most influential
philosophers of the twentieth century, was a preeminent interpreter
of the thought of Thomas Aquinas and author of more than fifty
books in metaphysics, the philosophy of science, aesthetics, and
social and political philosophy. A giant in his field, he combined
his Catholic faith and wide-ranging intellect to address
contemporary issues and the many facets of the human experience. In
Jacques Maritain: An Intellectual Profile, Jude P. Dougherty shares
his lifetime interest in and study of Maritain with readers. He
offers the most complete introduction to Maritain yet to be
published, highlighting Maritain's many contributions to
philosophy. Throughout, the reader gains a clear sense of Maritain
the man, his relationships with other notable figures of his time,
and his engagement in many of the debates of the twentieth century.
Dougherty's essays offer an appreciation of the perennial value of
Maritain's intellect. He follows Maritain's philosophical journey
from his early critique on the metaphysics of Henri Bergson to the
publication of L'Eglise du Christ in 1973. Accessible to readers
new to Maritain's work and to the Thomistic tradition, the book
will be welcomed by seasoned scholars as well.
An examination of the nature of religion from a philosophical
perspective. In successive chapters classical, mediaeval and modern
authors are canvassed for their views. Even among those who find no
evidence for the existence of God, we encounter discussions of the
nature of religion and its function in society. This study begins
in antiquity with Socrates, Plato, Cicero and Seneca. It then moves
through Augustine to the Middle Ages as represented by Averroes and
Aquinas. By so proceeding, the author offers the reader insight
into the nature and logic of religion as conceived before and after
the advent of Christianity. Subsequent investigation leads to a
consideration of the work of David Hume, Immanuel Kant and G.W.F.
Hegel, in whose philosophies we find not only an account of the
logic of religion but an appreciation of its implications in the
practical order, and of Sigmund Freud's negative assessment of
religion in ""The Future of an Illusion"". Although the focus of
this study is primarily Western religion, attention is also paid to
selected oriental modes of thought, some properly called
""religion"" in the Western sense, others more akin to philosophy
than religion. Throughout history the cultural implications of
religion are apparent. In this work, readers should find
philosophical observations on the nature of belief, worship,
ritual, sacrifice, doctrine, theology and community.
As we enter a new millennium, calls for the renewal of America
abound. There is a widespread belief that something is amiss, that
the nation is in a period of moral and cultural decline. We still
speak of Western civilization, and it remains a reality even though
its spiritual foundation has been under siege within Western
intellectual circles for more than two centuries. In Western Creed,
Western Identity, Jude P. Dougherty investigates the classical
roots of Western culture and its religious sources in an effort to
define its underlying intellectual and spiritual commitments. The
essays were written from a single vantage point, one that has come
to be identified with Thomas Aquinas, although the natural law
outlook they represent is older than Aquinas. While they are the
reflections of a spectator formed in the Catholic tradition, they
are not theological in character. They are meant to be observations
and judgments that can be appreciated by readers who may not
identify with that tradition. The first part of the volume examines
the role of religion in society. Dougherty considers the views of
Karl Marx and John Dewey, contrasting them with those of Jacques
Maritain and John Courtney Murray. The second part of the book
examines the nature of the law and the relation between civil law
and natural law. Contemporary legal issues bearing upon the
assignment of responsibility are addressed in an essay on
collective responsibility and in another on the assignment of blame
within the context of tort law. Responsibility and punishment are
examined within the same framework. The final section brings
together a number of essays on the relation of faith and reason.
One essay follows the intellectual journey of Edith Stein, another
the thought of Jacques Maritain from the beginning of his career to
his final works. John Paul II's Fides et Ratio as a defense of
reason and the reasonableness of faith is also discussed. ABOUT THE
AUTHOR: Jude P. Dougherty, dean emeritus of the School of
Philosophy at The Catholic University of America, is editor of the
Review of Metaphysics and general editor of the Studies in
Philosophy and the History of Philosophy series published by CUA
Press. PRAISE FOR THE BOOK: "Exceptionally well written. . . .
Students of American thought, whether from the general public or
the academy, will find the book of interest. Dougherty shows again
and again how and where a disciplined metaphysics can provide new
and useful perspectives on important legal and social issues. This
is not a book of advocacy. It is instead a clear, consistent
statement of the continuing relevance of a powerful theological
tradition."--Perspectives on Political Science "These essays serve
as timely reminders of the virtue or order, of the rule of law, of
moral responsibility in life and work, of the function of religion
in society, and of the beneficences that accrue when the
contemplative way is not excluded from a viable place within the
active life."--Modern Age "Dougherty brings together formidable
erudition and wisdom in a convincing affirmation of the credal
basis of the culture of the West."--First Things "What one is
struck by in reading Dougherty is the firm way in which he places
himself in the context when he writes. Thus the essays are written
with a lively sense of the times. . . ."--From the Foreword by
Prof. Ralph McInerny "Dougherty demonstrates that neglect of the
Western creed has caused the erosion of American legal institutions
and a host of negative social consequences. . . . His work is
unique and original in combining natural law, Catholic social
thought, and contemporary jurisprudence. It will appeal to those
interested in philosophy, the Catholic intellectual tradition,
Catholic social thought, natural law, and legal and political phi
How we became what we are. There are many explanations. One
plausible account is found in the work of Rudolph Allers who writes
about the European intellectual landscape from 1850 to the opening
decades of the twentieth century...Allers is not alone in
recognizing that a true account of human nature may await the
recovery of classical antiquity. From Plato and Aristotle,
modernity may learn that the immaterial or spiritual component of
human nature is not empirically discerned but reasoned to from
empirical evidence. - from the translation by Jude Dougherty
The "mainstream" as the term is employed here finds it headwaters
in antiquity, if not in the pre-Socratics, certainly in Plato and
Aristotle. Through the centuries, that philosophy has been utilized
and developed by the Stoics, the Neo-Platonists, the Scholastics,
the Arabs, and by the Early Moderns. Dougherty approaches his
topics from the perspective of the mainstream, specifically from
the vantage point represented in contemporary discourse by the
realism of Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas. In commenting on
contemporary social and political issues, Dougherty provides a
critique of the humbug that often passes as philosophy. Much of
what is published as philosophy, he claims, has little to do with
the pursuit of wisdom, and much is written without any knowledge of
the history of philosophy - for example, a professor of moral
philosophy, by his own admission, lecturing without any knowledge
of the Stoics, and another professor at a prominent university, in
a nationally televised series of lectures devoted to the history of
philosophy, jumping from Plato to Descartes with nothing in
between. Dougherty argues that the ancients, no less intelligent or
observant than we, have much to say to us about nature, human
nature, and the polity. It is from the vantage point of what he
takes to be perennial philosophy that Dougherty discusses topics
such as "The Acquisition and Use of Power," "Property as a
Condition of Liberty," "Tolerance." "Responsibility," and "The
Nature of Scientific Explanation." Briefly Considered is divided
into three parts. Part One presents a series of essays on
contemporary social and political issues. Part Two surveys some
recent works in the history and philosophy of science, and Part
Three provides an introduction to Islamic scholarship that will aid
those seeking an understanding of the origins and history of that
movement.
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