Philosophy and Freedom : The Legacy of James Doull.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (551 pages)
- Toronto Studies in Philosophy Series .
- Toronto Studies in Philosophy Series .
Intro -- 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 -- Commentary Two: The Origin of Constitutions in the Republic -- CHAPTER TWO: Plato's Parmenides -- Commentary: The Criticism of Plato's Doctrine of Participation in Parmenides: A Propaedeutic to the Platonic Dialectic -- CHAPTER THREE: Virgil's Rome -- Commentary: The Eternity of Rome: Virgil's Doctrine and Its Relation to Plato -- Part Two: Medieval to Renaissance -- CHAPTER FOUR: Augustine -- Commentary: The Augustinian Philosophy and Christian Institutions -- CHAPTER FIVE: Neoplatonism and the Origin of the Older Modern Subject -- Commentary: Neoplatonism and Contemporary Constructions and Deconstructions of Modern Subjectivity -- Part Three: Hegel, Modernity, and Post-modernity -- CHAPTER SIX: Hegel's Phenomenology and Post-modern Thought -- Commentary: The Hegelian Idea -- 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 -- Part Four: The Post-modern State -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Heidegger and the State -- Commentary: Heidegger and the Dialectic of Modernity -- CHAPTER NINE: The Philosophical Basis of Constitutional Discussion in Canada -- Commentary One: The Critique of Naturalistic Individualism: James Doull's Political Thought, 1960-1983 -- Commentary Two: North American Freedom: James Doull's Recent Political Thought -- Bibliography of Essays -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Commentaries on his intricate works by twelve former colleagues and students explore various aspects of Doull's history and place it within the context of contemporary scholarship, allowing the reader to judge the depth and rigour of Doull's writing.