Socrates Meets Jesus

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : IVP
ISBN 13 : 9780830823383
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socrates Meets Jesus written by Peter Kreeft and published by IVP. This book was released on 2002-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Kreeft imagines what would happen if Socrates woke up today and enrolled in divinity school. Kreeft's new introduction for this edition highlights the inspirations for the book and the key questions of truth and faith it addresses.

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681494418
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socrates Meets Marx written by Peter Kreeft and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing the dialogue format that the Greek philosopher made famous, Kreeft presents the latest in his series of small books on philosophy. In a unique and compelling take on the philosophies of the modern world, Kreeft pits the ancient Greek philosopher against the founder of Communism. Humorous, frank, and insightful, this book challenges the reader to step in and take hold of what is right and to cast away what is wrong. Topics covered include such varied subjects as private property, the individual, the ಜThree Philosophies of Manಝ, women, individualism, and more. A wonderful introduction to philosophy for the neophyte, and a joy for the experienced student.

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 168149437X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socrates Meets Descartes written by Peter Kreeft and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 5th volume in the series of popular volumes by Peter Kreeft, in which the "Father of Philosophy", Socrates, cross-examines various other important philosophers and thinkers (in previous books he examined Marx, Sarte, Machiavelli, and Socrates himself.) Kreeft states that Socrates and Descartes are perhaps the two most important philosophers who have ever lived, because they are the two who made the most difference to all philosophy after them. These two fathers of philosophy stand at the beginning of the two basic philosophical options: the classical and the modern. Kreeft focuses on seven features that unite these two major philosophers and distinguish them from all others. So this dialog between Socrates and Descartes is a dialog between the fundamental stages in the history of philosophy, the history of consciousness, and the history of Western culture. Like his other works in this popular series, this book is profound and witty reading that makes for an entertaining and insightful exploration of modern philosophy. It will appeal to both the common reader as well as to those more philosophically inclined.

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830874526
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Things in Life written by Peter Kreeft and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the best things in life? Questions like that may boggle your mind. But they don't boggle Socrates. The indomitable old Greek brings his unending questions to Desperate State University. With him come the same mind-opening and spirit-stretching challenge that disrupted ancient Athens. What is the purpose of education? Why do we make love? What good is money? Can computers think like people? Is there a difference between Capitalism and Communism? What is the greatest good? Is belief in God like belief in Santa Claus? In twelve short, Socratic dialogues Peter Kreeft explodes contemporary values like success, power and pleasure. And he bursts the modern bubbles of agnosticism and subjectivism. He leaves you richer, wiser and more able to discern what the best things in life actually are.

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 0898709717
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socrates Meets Sartre written by Peter Kreeft and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian philosopher Kreeft (philosophy, Boston College) uses an imaginary dialogue between Socrates and Sartre to challenge the fundamental concepts of existentialist philosophy. The conversational style and non-technical language he employs serves to make the concepts discussed accessible to both students and general readers. Kreeft is also the

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1586173480
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socrates Meets Kant written by Peter Kreeft and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immanuel Kant is one of the greatest philosophers in history. But, as Peter Kreeft notes in this book, Kant is really two philosophers--a philosopher about how we know things (epistemology) and a philosopher of right and wrong (ethics). If he had written only on either topic, he would still be the most important and influential of the modern philosophers. The combination of the two, though, makes for a formidable thinker, one it would take a figure such as the Father of Philosophy, the relentless Socrates, to confront. Confront he does, in Peter Kreeft's next installment of the popular Socrates Meets series. Set in the afterlife, the conversation between the two great minds lays out the key issues. Kreeft's Socrates reflects what the historical philosopher would likely have made of Kant's ideas, while also recognizing the greatness, genius, and insightfulness of Kant. The result of their dialogues is a helpful, highly readable, even amusing book, useful for beginner as well as master. Kant's philosophy of knowing truly is a "Copernican revolution in philosophy" as he dubbed it. His ethics was intended to set out the rational grounds for morality. Did he achieve his goals? What would Socrates say about the matter? Dr. Kreeft has written a book no student of modern thought should be without.

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 9780877848103
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unaborted Socrates written by Peter Kreeft and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 1983-07-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Kreeft's Socrates enters the debate on abortion, considering the arguments of psychology, medicine and philosophy.

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 0898709261
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socrates Meets Machiavelli written by Peter Kreeft and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no better way to understand our present world than by exploring the Great Books written by the great minds that have made it. There is no better way to study the beginning of modern political philosophy than by studying its foundations in Machiavelli's The Prince. There is no better way to study the Great Books than with the aid of Socrates, the philosopher par excellence. What if we could overhear a conversation in the afterlife between Socrates and Machiavelli, in which Machiavelli has to submit to an Oxford tutorial style examination of his book conducted by Socrates using his famous "Socratic method" of cross-examination? How might the conversation go? This imaginative thought-experiment makes for both drama and a good lesson in logic, in moral and political philosophy, in "how to read a book," and in the history of early modern thought. Thus this book is for readers looking for a thought-stretching "good read" and for use in college classes in logic, philosophy, ethics, political science, literature, communication, rhetoric, anthropology, and history.

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : St Augustine PressInc
ISBN 13 : 9781587318382
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socrates Meets Kierkegaard written by Peter Kreeft and published by St Augustine PressInc. This book was released on 2014 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No philosopher since Augustine had more strings to his bow than SK."

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : St Augustine PressInc
ISBN 13 : 9781587318375
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socrates Meets Freud written by Peter Kreeft and published by St Augustine PressInc. This book was released on 2014 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Probably no single thinker since Jesus has influenced the thoughts and lives of more people living in the Western world today than Sigmund Freud. Even agnostics like William Barrett, in Irrational Man, and atheists like Nietzsche, agree that the single most radical change in the last thousand years of Western civilization has been the decline of religion. And the four most influential critics of religion have certainly been Nietzsche, Marx, Darwin, and Freud. Of the four, Freud is by far the most popular No name is more associated with, and in fact responsible for, "the sexual revolution" than Freud. And no revolution in history, at least none since the one around a cross and an empty tomb, and perhaps even none since the one around a snake and an apple, has been more life-changing, and has more potential to continue to be more radically life-changing in the future, than the sexual revolution. To see this, just read Huxley's Brave New World. (And remember that Huxley was far from being a theist.) Freud wore three hats. Freud was (1) a practicing psychoanalyst (indeed, the inventor of psychoanalysis), (2) a professional theoretical psychologist and sociologist, and (3) an amateur philosopher. This book explores only his philosophy, for that is the point of his intersection with Socrates. If Socrates is right in his deepest convictions about the power of reason and the importance of philosophy, Freud's philosophy is the ultimate source, foundation, explanation, and justification for his psychology"--