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An in-depth study of the thought of contemporary Spanish philosopher Julian Marias, in the context of Ortega y Gasset and his times and twentieth-century Spanish culture.
With this one-volume, English-language presentation of two of his books on the United States, the Spanish philosopher Julián Marias joins the ranks of those foreign intellectuals and travelers who have made significant commentaries on our developing society. Such writers as Alexis de Tocqueville, Frances Trollope, Frederick Marryat, Charles Dickens, Harriet Martineau, James Bryce, and Denis Brogan have examined the American forest when our own writers have been detained among its trees. In forcing us to look at ourselves through their eyes, they have brought about major breakthroughs in our understanding and perception of ourselves. Rather than reiterating that the United States is a place ...
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Thorough and lucid survey of Western philosophy from pre-Socratics to mid 20th century — major figures, currents, trends. Valuable section on contemporary philosophy — Brentano, Ortega, Heidegger, others. "Brevity and clarity of exposition..." — Ethics.
Julian Marias begins The Christian Perspective with the observation -- which also becomes an informing premise -- that those areas of the world where Christianity is or has been preeminent have also been the most creative and progressive. Without offering an exhaustive explanation for this phenomenon, Marias suggests ways the Christian view has helped to shape our understanding of human dignity and destiny and examines in non-theological language how Christians have realized or rejected this vision.
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Alphonse-Joseph-Auguste Gratry (1805-1872) was born in Lille, northern France, of irreligious parents and lived during a time of endless revolution. As a young man, he underwent a powerful conversion in which he experienced a mystical vision of a world based on truth and justice. This determined the course of his future life. A classically educated scholar, he studied engineering at the outstanding ?cole Polytechnique, completed a doctorate on the scientific method in Strasbourg (1840), was ordained a priest, and later obtained a doctorate in letters and a licentiate in theology. Moved by the events of 1848, he published his first book in the form of a social catechism on the necessity for a...
Julian Marias deals only with Gratry's philosophy: his philosophy of the person and his philosophy of God. He remarks that Gratry's logic was much appreciated by C. S. Peirce; and compares Gratry with thinkers like Brentano.