Students Guide To Philosophy (Guides To Major Disciplines)

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The ISI Guides to the Major Disciplines are reader-friendly introductions to the most important fields of knowledge in the liberal arts. Written by leading scholars for both students and the general public, they will be appreciated by anyone desiring a reliable and informative tour of important subject matter. Each title offers an historical overview of a particular discipline, explains the central ideas of each subject, and evaluates the works of thinkers whose ideas have shaped our world. They will aid students seeking to make better decisions about their course of study as well as general readers who wish to supplement their education. All who treasure the world of ideas and liberal learning will be motivated by these original and stimulating presentations.

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Series: Guides To Major Disciplines
Paperback: 75 pages
Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute (November 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1882926390
ISBN-13: 978-1882926398
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scarletNgray

Classical realist philosophy alive and well

July 17, 2010

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Ralph McInerny is a rarely gifted philosopher, as his Gifford Lectures and prolific contribution to first rate academic philosophy indicate. This little introduction is one I found to be a jewel of book. True enough, it is not dumbed down to meet the lowest common denominator as far as the reading public is concerned. It's challenging reading, as it should be. It requires a bit of effort to read, and yet much of it is quite clearly written even for initiates. What McInerny does so well, and so relevantly, is to explain why the tradition of classical realism in philosophy is alive and well, and pointedly relevant in today's socal and academic context. Academic philosophers, who have reached the cul-de-sac of the postmodern caricature of philosophy, are living examples of the need for books like McInerny's. He rightly leads the reader through the watershed event in the history of philosophy--the "modern turn to the subject"--and shows why what goes by the name "philosophy" today is a rather sad imposter to the title. The death of philosophy, in other words, is greatly exaggerated. Such a claim relies on the acceptance of needless assumptions, some of which are sophisticated errors, while others are simply silly. One small problem I have with more than one of McInerny's books is the apparently gratuitious shots he takes at Luther and other Reformers. In this, he seems to follow one of his mentors, Jacques Maritain. I highly respect Maritain, who was the favorably treated subject of my PhD dissertation in Philosophy. However, the superficial criticisms of Luther and the Reformation appear to be an odd but inevitable thread in the otherwise sterling work of many contemporary Catholic philosophers. I hesitate even to include this observation, for fear that it might take away from the solid, commendable work McInerny has accomplished in his fine introduction, and his other excellent works. In the process of earning degress at three Catholic universities, I've always been a bit puzzled at the failure to understand Luther on the part of scholars who seemingly should know better. This is a small price to pay for the wealth of first rate philosophy found in McInerny's works--which are a needed corrective to the generally sad condition of academic philosophy today. The book is very highly recomended.

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Mateus de Castro

What a guide should be!

August 29, 2012

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Dr. McInerny gives exactly what he promises: a guide. He points you in the right direction, and more than that, he gives you the map. And a great one. Always well written, as are all his books.

Those who are biased accused him of being exactly that. But they should think again. Dr. McInerny never hid his views or his defense (and deference) of the classic philosophical view. He's a Catholic, and so he defends Thomism and the classical way. No surprises.

What I think some people defend is that kind of cynical book where the writer pretends he's writing an "objective" and "unbiased" book while washing your mind with all possible modernist views. Those are the ones some people call "honest and unbiased".

At least Dr. McInerny is honest about his preferences. You got what you payed for.

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W. Mark Smillie

philosophy belongs to everyone

January 10, 2002

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Rather than a give the story of philosophy in 50 pages, Dr. McInerny points students of philosophy in a direction such that their philosophical studies might actually benefit their lives. The book is thus a defense of perennial philosophy, and the classical view that philosophy is something humans are "naturally" drawn to do, because it completes our lives. Dr. McInerny engages the reader in argument, as he defends this view against modern views of philosophy, and discusses the nature of certainty, common sense, and the role of science. Its most important value is the great faith in human intellect and reason, implicit throughout the book. This book would make a good beginning for college philosophy classes. A concluding bibliographical appendix by Joshua Hochschild gives a brief overview of main philosophers throughout history, and some good suggestions for reading.

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Thomas J. Hickey

A traditional natural-law philosophy

February 26, 2006

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Since the trauma of World War I Western culture has become sympathetic to subjective relativism and unsympathetic to objective morals: In his Preface to Morals (1929) Walter Lippmann called belief in the objectivity of good and evil the "pathetic fallacy." In his The Modern Temper (1929), Joseph Wood Krutch described emerging moral relativism and uncertainty in the 1920's, which viewed traditional morals, religious beliefs and intellectual certainties as myths that have been unmasked by advances in modern science. And in his Only Yesterday (1931), Frederick Lewis Allen wrote that 1920's-era relativism was reinforced by Einstein and Heisenberg, who had brought relativism and uncertainty into physics.

Do you believe that the Nuremberg trials of the Nazis were just the victors imposing their peculiar cultural values on the vanquished? If your answer is "yes", then you maintain a relativist view of morality. Do you believe that if the Nazis had won World War II, then it would be true to say that Jews are not persons but are merely vermin to be exterminated? If so, then you maintain a relativist view of truth. And you may also be sympathetic to the "pro-choice" view of abortion, which is based in subjectivist relativism.

On the other hand if your answers to the above questions are "no", then you are not sympathetic to relativism. And you may be interested in this book, A Student's Guide to Philosophy, by the late Notre Dame philosopher Ralph McInerny. Its author views Western philosophy from the perspective of the philosophies of Aristotle and Aquinas.

Much of academic philosophy - including what I found while at Notre Dame University - is an irrelevant pedantic game. But this book is an authentic philosophy book by an author who believes in the philosophy he writes about. In my vividly recalled personal experience as a student in McInerny's classes I found him an authentic and ingenuous philosopher. I am not of Scholastic persuasion, but I rate this book at 5 stars.

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