John A. Mourant (1903–1994)
Autore di Readings in the philosophy of religion
Opere di John A. Mourant
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1903-11-24
- Data di morte
- 1994-02-24
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Attività lavorative
- Pennsylvania State College
Utenti
Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 8
- Utenti
- 56
- Popolarità
- #291,557
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 2
Mourant is an Epistemologist and Freund is primarily an Ethicist, and they cross into other disciplines with care. The compilation is pre-Derrida {where "criticism" is the focus, not just dialectics and speculation [5]).
From the Introductory Note on Plato: "why was Meno so interested in the question of how ARETE, excellence, comes about?" Is it enough to say it is "self-evident" that Meno shared a Graeco aspiration to be "excellent persons"?
Text material for Self-Realization is drawn from Aristotle [35]. Serious translation issues -- such as "Moral excellence is a mean state" [46] where the word mean was meant only to refer to the center avoidance of extremes.
Includes extracts of his writings, and credits Joseph Stalin (from his scholarship at a theological seminary) with having written three "important books", not to mention the USSR Constitution [447 {this authorship has been questioned}].… (altro)