Seth Benardete's study of the Iliad, which initiated his scholarly career, bears the hallmarks of the unique turn of mind that characterized all his later work. In a brief Note written thirty years later, included in this volume, he looks back on what he sees as the limits of his original reading of the Iliad. Yet he seems to have been aware of the fundamental problems from early on that he wrestled with explicitly when he returned to Homer some forty years later: the question of the relations among gods, fate, and human choice, which lies at the core of his late "Platonic reading" of the Odyssey, is already guiding his understanding of the Iliad. And he saw, in working out that understanding, how those relations take on a very distinct form for the tragic hero in contrast with the comic hero - Achilles in contrast with Odysseus.

Achilles and Hector: Homeric Hero

Literature & Fiction

Benardete, Seth

History & Criticism

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After Wittgenstein, St Thomas [Hardcover] [Mar 28, 2008] Pouivet, Roger and S...

After Wittgenstein, St Thomas

Sherwin, Michael

Pouivet, Roger

History

The Conversion of Edith Stein

Gaboriau, Florent

Religion & Spirituality

The Catholic Church today finds herself at the very center of some of the most important and controversial moral and social developments of our day, including abortion, capital punishment, cloning, so-called "gay marriage," pacifism and the morality of war, the ethics of healthcare in a technologically advanced but morally deficient society, and other related subjects. The Fellowship of Catholic Scholars attempts to address issues such as these by inviting the best and most knowledgeable scholars and commentators to speak at its annual conventions. This book brings together the addresses and responses devoted to these topics at the Fellowship's 26th annual convention in 2003. The contributors include the renowned John Finnis of Oxford and Notre Dame, Mary Eberstadt of the Hoover Institution, Christopher Wolfe of Marquette University, William E. May of the John Paul II Institute, Gerard V. Bradley of the Notre Dame Law School, Patrick Lee of Franciscan University! , Steven A. Long of the University of St. Thomas, E. Christian Brugger of Loyola University in New Orleans, J. Brian Benestad of the University of Scranton, the Rev. Michael J. Baxter of Notre Dame, and, not least, the well-known moral theologian, Msgr. William B. Smith of St. Joseph's Seminary. Nowhere between two covers can there be found a sharper searchlight trained upon some of the principal moral and social issues of our day than in this collection.

The Catholic Citizen: Debating the Issues of Justice

"Winner of The New Criterion Poetry Prize"--Tile page/sJacket.

Fix Quiet: Poems

Poch, John

Poetry

John Paul II: Witness to Truth

Fellowship of Catholic Scholars

Argues that "new atheism" is based on an unfounded "mechanical" view of the world and the "teleological" vision of the ancient philosophers is rationally vindicated.

The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism

Feser, Edward

Atheism

Logos and Eros: Essays Honoring Stanley Rosen

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

My Art, My Life [Hardcover] [Nov 30, 2010] Van Hamersveld, John and Clucas, D...

My Art, My Life

Arts & Photography

Van Hamersveld, John

"Published in 1900, the novel's subtitle, A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania, reflects the story's modern political focus. Savrola contains the seeds of Churchill's exceptional talents as a statesman, a political philosopher, and a man of literature. The ambition of Savrola to rule foreshadows Churchill's own life-long career as the greatest democratic leader of the past century. In the novel, Churchill the thinker explores the challenges of securing democratic order and avoiding mob rule. He sketches a model of the education needed for modern statesmanship and describes the kind of rhetoric that appeals to a modern democratic people. Elements of Churchill's literary style in the novel anticipate the greatness of his later prose works that would merit him the Nobel Prize for Literature. This edition of Savrola contains extensive introductory materials, notes, an appendix, and is lavishly illustrated with reproductions of the Andrâe Collot woodcuts made for a limited French edition of the work"--

Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution In Laurania

Churchill, Winston, S.

Patrick Powers

Literary

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