Conversations with an Unrepentant Liberal (The Terry Lectures Series) - Hardcover

Bixler, Julius Seelye

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 030013584X ISBN 13: 9780300135848

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1946

Synopsis

In this book two philosophers, Simmias and Cebes, who were friends and contemporaries of Plato’s continue their discussions of life and death and religion in this current year of crisis. Beginning in a railway station in Boston and continuing on through Providence and New Haven, they argue the eternal problems of what truth is and whether liberalism, with its concern for human reason, its tolerance of people who disagree with it, has much of a place in a world of totalitarianism and war, of Freud with his irrational subconscious and the atomic bomb with its fury. In an amusing and searching scrutiny of the liberals and their opponents Mr. Bixler analyzes through his two heroes the principal modern philosophies that are grappling with the ills of the world, and he demonstrates a considerable area of agreement between their opposing views.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1946
• ISBN 10: 030013584X
• ISBN 13: 9780300135848
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 113