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The Counter-Revolution

Molnar, Thomas

Funk Wagnalls Co

The Pagan Temptation

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Eerdmans Pub.Co.

Color wraps, clean, corners bumped, lay flat, edge wear, binding is tight. No previous owners name, other notations in text. Nice copy.

Twin Powers: Politics and the Sacred

The utopian is generally regarded as a harmless visionary, of course, whose system of thought suffers largely from a naivete about things as they really are. In this work, Thomas Molnar disputes this view and shows that the utopian thinker can be (and often has been) extremely dangerous. Thus it may surprise many that Molnar sees Teilhard de Chardin and Karl Marx sharing the same ideological umbrella, despite the theological differences between them. Going further, the author argues strongly that utopianism is a persistent historical phenomenon seriously at odds with that Christian realism which remains as one of the supports of Western civilization. For the utopianóreligious or atheisticóaims, despite all disclaimers, at the deification of man. Further, in Thomas Molnar's cogent thesis, utopian doctrines implicitly deny the central Christian understanding of original sin. The perfection which they seek and the abstract Man of whom they speak alike conflict with the Christian understanding of the free human will and a personal, transcendent God. Co-published with The Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Utopia, The Perennial Heresy

Reference

University Press of America

The utopian is generally regarded as a harmless visionary, of course, whose system of thought suffers largely from a naivete about things as they really are. In this work, Thomas Molnar disputes this view and shows that the utopian thinker can be (and often has been) extremely dangerous. Thus it may surprise many that Molnar sees Teilhard de Chardin and Karl Marx sharing the same ideological umbrella, despite the theological differences between them. Going further, the author argues strongly that utopianism is a persistent historical phenomenon seriously at odds with that Christian realism which remains as one of the supports of Western civilization. For the utopian-religious or atheistic-aims, despite all disclaimers, at the deification of man. Further, in Thomas Molnar's cogent thesis, utopian doctrines implicitly deny the central Christian understanding of original sin. The perfection which they seek and the abstract Man of whom they speak alike conflict with the Christian understanding of the free human will and a personal, transcendent God. Co-published with The Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Christian Humanism: A Critique of the Secular City and Its Ideology

Franciscan Pr

Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 304 pages; Description: xv, 304 p. Map. 21 cm. Bibliographical footnotes. Subjects: Africa --Politics and government. Africa --Description and travel.

Africa a Political Travelogue

Fleet Pr Corp

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The Decline of the Intellectual

Literature & Fiction

United States

Hassell Street Press

Return to Philosophy

From its earliest beginnings and through much of its history, the philosophical enterprise has rooted its intellectual procedures in common sense. Ordinary discourse is what the pre-Socratic thinkers did at the dawn of speculation. The same approach was characteristic of the medieval mystics, Pascal in the seventeenth century, and Gaston Bachelard in the twentieth century. However with the ascendency of the physical sciences, mathematics, and depth psychology as influences in contemporary thought, philosophical language and forms of expression became increasingly distant from ordinary language. This created estrangement and confusion in the learner's mind. In Return to Philosophy Thomas Molnar diagnoses the verbal derailment of philosophy and shows how it might be reconnected to the realities of human life.While granting that philosophy must use a somewhat specialized language, Molnar attacks jargon-laden thought by tracing certain root assumptions that go deeper than the issue of language itself. He locates these assumptions in the work of philosophers who, espousing modernity, no longer trust the "reality of the real," and are convinced that the world and our perception of it are elusive, offering no foundation except in the human mind which, however, is also the result of a "social contract," a temporary consensus or transient network of meanings readily discardable. According to changing ideologies and social structures we use "signs" linguistic, psychological, hermeneutical, structuralist, existentialist not to express reality but to establish communication with others. Philosophy, then, shifts from the task of knowing reality to the task of communicating here and now.Return to Philosophy is a unique endeavor. Molnar's book unmasks the modern derailment and shows that many leading philosophers do not so much philosophize, but merely elaborate verbal-technical instruments in what may be little more than trivial language games. This volume will be of interest to philosophers, cultural historians, and sociologists.

Routledge

Archetypes of Thought

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The Counter-Revolution

The Pagan Temptation

Twin Powers: Politics and the Sacred

Utopia, The Perennial Heresy

Utopia, The Perennial Heresy

Christian Humanism: A Critique of the Secular City and Its Ideology

Africa a Political Travelogue

The Decline of the Intellectual

Return to Philosophy

Archetypes of Thought