Person, Being, & History

by Baur, Michael; Wood, Robert E.

• ISBN13: 9780813218571
• ISBN10: 0813218578
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-23
• Publisher: Catholic Univ of Amer Pr

Summary

Kenneth Schmitz's teaching focused upon the singularity of the human person founded upon the notion of being that generates the history of philosophy. He was eminently generous in his appreciation of the philosophers about whom he lectured. He taught philosophy, richly grounded in the history of philosophy as a gold mine rather than as a minefield. Anchored in his spirit, the various essays in this volume by colleagues and former students of Schmitz examine his thought and the subjects of his teaching. In addition to an overall exposition of his own thought, the collection treats themes such as gift, faith and reason, culture and dialogue, modernity and post-modernity, and themes in the work of various thinkers, including Aristotle, Anselm, Aquinas, Martin Heidegger, Gabriel Marcel, Max Scheler, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Special attention is given to G. W. F. Hegel whose philosophy Schmitz was particularly adept at teaching.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Themes in the Philosophy of Kenneth L. Schmitz
The Philosophy of Kenneth L. Schmitz: The Recovery and Discovery of Things, Being, and the Person	p. 3
The Gift and the Giving	p. 48
öPraise the World to the Angelö: Heidegger, Schmitz, and the Liturgy of the Thing	p. 57
Reading the History of Philosophy in the Spirit of Kenneth L. Schmitz
Coming-to-Know as a Way of Coming-to-Be: AristotleÆs	p. 77
Revisiting AnselmÆs Ontological Argument	p. 103
Aristotle and Aquinas	p. 115
Subjectivity and Objectivity in HegelÆs Science of Logic	p. 125
Violent and Nonviolent Teleology in HegelÆs Science of Logic	p. 140
Performing Hegel	p. 156
Beauty and the Good in HegelÆs Aesthetics	p. 181
The Problem of Genius in King Lear: Hegel on the Feeling Soul and the Tragedy of Wonder	p. 200
Science and the Shaping of Modernity: The Reciprocal Influence of Science and Culture	p. 226
Scheler on the Essence of Christian Religious Consciousness	p. 242
The Pervasive Presence of the Spiritual in Gabriel MarcelÆs World	p. 258
Jean-Paul Sartre: An Existentialist to the End?	p. 273
The Unmasking of Objectivity	p. 284
Themes in the Spirit of Kenneth L. Schmitz
Seeing the Unseen	p. 307
Human Nature, Culture, and the Dialogical Imperative	p. 325
A Chronological Bibliography of Works	p. 341
Bibliography	p. 349
Contributors	p. 371
Index	p. 375
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