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The Last Platonist: Essays in Honour of Roger James Sworder
Roger Sworder was a remarkable teacher, philosopher, poet and metaphysician who taught two generations of tertiary students. This book is a tribute to him and his work. It contains essays by former students and teaching colleagues, along with a short biography and a series of previously unpublished autobiographical poems. Anyone with an interest in the Western Tradition will find it an immensely rewarding read.
The Betrayal of Tradition
This collection of essays by eminent traditionalists and contemporary thinkers throws into sharp relief many of the urgent problems of today.
The Romantic Attack on Modern Science in England and America & Other Essays
There are no sacred cows for modern scientists. Ironically, modern science has itself become a sacred cow, of which we hear very little criticism. But modern science has long been denounced by some of the wisest among us: our poets. The long essay in this book considers six of the very greatest poets of the English language since the Scientific Revolution. None of them considered as science what we now call science. Nor did they regard as philosophy what we call philosophy. This essay closely examines just how deep is this chasm at the core of our culture and our values--and it does so through some of the finest poetry in our language. Evolution, automation, and philosophical Taoism are disc...
A Contrary History of the West
What was the purpose of the ancient Greek Olympics? No one really knows. But the first essay in this book examines one early Greek games whose purpose we do know. And that was to cleanse the site of a massacre from a deadly pollution. These games were a periodic ritual to appease the furious dead. And they worked. The second essay looks again at what is due to Caesar. Jesus makes no compromise with the Romans. If the penny was Caesar's, Caesar was Jehovah's.The title essay frames the last thousand years of Western history as a series of political constitutions. We travel backwards in time from the democracies now through plutocracy, aristocracy and theocracy to the first millennium. It is a ...
The Romantic Attack on Modern Science in England and America & Other Essays
There are no sacred cows for modern scientists. Ironically, modern science has itself become a sacred cow, of which we hear very little criticism. But modern science has long been denounced by some of the wisest among us: our poets. The long essay in this book considers six of the very greatest poets of the English language since the Scientific Revolution. None of them considered as science what we now call science. Nor did they regard as philosophy what we call philosophy. This essay closely examines just how deep is this chasm at the core of our culture and our values--and it does so through some of the finest poetry in our language. Evolution, automation, and philosophical Taoism are disc...
Homer on Immortality
Roger Sworder is a lecturer in the Department of Arts at La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
Mathematical Plato
Plato is the first scientist whose work we still possess. He is our first writer to interpret the natural world mathematically, and also the first theorist of mathematics in the natural sciences. As no one else before or after, he set out why we should suppose a link between nature and mathematics, a link that has never been stronger than it is today. Mathematical Plato examines how Plato organized and justified the principles, terms, and methods of our mathematical, natural science. "Roger Sworder deserves our gratitude for drawing attention to the significance of mathematics in Plato's thought and writings. He lays the principal discussions out before us with clarity. He also presents Plat...
Stop, Don't Read
Sworder has written two essays for this edition of his poems. The book starts with "Why poetry?' and finishes with a brief account of the major forms of English verse.
A Loose Canon
In this collection of essays, Coman ranges over a vast tapestry of experiences from ferreting rabbits, to the pleasures of reading the Odyssey and listening to church bells. Religion, philosophy, modern music, Freddie Ayer's 'amorous dalliances' and Chinese ghost stories - it's all here in this eclectic compilation. The essays will delight both the serious and the casual reader.
