Philosophy and Freedom : : The Legacy of James Doull / / Neil Robertson, David Peddle.

James Doull's remarkable legacy as a teacher, scholar, and thinker has left behind a profound and challenging examination of the philosophical and historical roots of contemporary thought and politics. His life's work was devoted to a reflection on freedom in its philosophical and historic...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Toronto Studies in Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Editors' Introduction
  • An Introduction by James Doull - Freedom and History: From Antiquity to Post-modernity
  • Part One: The Ancient World
  • Chapter One. Tragedy, Comedy, and Philosophy in Antiquity
  • Commentary One: The Unification of Gods and Men in Greek Tragedy and Comedy / Epstein, Paul
  • Commentary Two: The Origin of Constitutions in the Republic / Johnston, Angus
  • Chapter Two. Plato's Parmenides
  • Commentary: The Criticism of Plato's Doctrine of Participation in Parmenides: A Propaedeutic to the Platonic Dialectic / House, Dennis
  • Chapter Three. Virgil's Rome
  • Commentary: The Eternity of Rome: Virgil's Doctrine and Its Relation to Plato / Starnes, Colin
  • Part Two: Medieval to Renaissance
  • Chapter Four. Augustine
  • Commentary: The Augustinian Philosophy and Christian Institutions / Grouse, Robert
  • Chapter Five. Neoplatonism and the Origin of the Older Modern Subject
  • Commentary: Neoplatonism and Contemporary Constructions and Deconstructions of Modern Subjectivity / Hankey, Wayne John
  • Part Three: Hegel, Modernity, and Post-modernity
  • Chapter Six. Hegel's Phenomenology and Post-modern Thought
  • Commentary: The Hegelian Idea / Jackson, F.L.
  • Chapter Seven. The Doull Fackenheim Debate - Would Hegel Today Be a Hegelian?
  • Commentary: Two Interpretations of Freedom and Evil: Hegel's Theory of Modernity Revisited / Kierans, Kenneth
  • Part Four: The Post-modern State
  • Chapter Eight. Heidegger and the State
  • Commentary: Heidegger and the Dialectic of Modernity / Nicholson, Graeme
  • Chapter Nine. The Philosophical Basis of Constitutional Discussion in Canada
  • Commentary One: The Critique of Naturalistic Individualism: James Doull's Political Thought, 1960-1983 / Roper, Henry
  • Commentary Two: North American Freedom: James Doull's Recent Political Thought / Peddle, David G. / Robertson, Neil G.
  • Bibliography of Essays by James Doull
  • Contributors
  • Index