Self and Soul A Defense of Ideals

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self and soul A Defense of Ideals mark edmundson Harvard University Press Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts London, England 2015 ...

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To my Grandmother: Frances Benton, To my Godmother and Aunt: Shirley Shine, And most of all to my Mo ther: Eileen Edmundson. The ...

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Main Sources Cited in the Text ix Polemical Introduction: The Triumph of Self 1 I Ancient Ideals 1 The Hero 19 2 The Saint 51 3 ...

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Main Sources Cited in the Text Chapter 1 Homer. The Iliad. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin, 1998. Cited by book and line ...

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This is a book about ideals— and about their potential disappear- ance from the world. It is no secret: culture in the West has ...

Maybe the departure of ideals from our lives is all to the good. Surely ideals are dangerous: those who commit their lives to id ...

The Triumph of Self 3 will not take, no deed he will not attempt, to attain what he hopes for: immortality. Achilles does not wi ...

serve. They have other goals on their minds: prosperity, security, a family. There are still true warriors in our culture, still ...

Plato the preeminent individual is the thinker, and the best way to spend one’s life is not in the quest for glory but in the qu ...

human experience, have got to believe that Plato was not quite cor- rect, even if on some level they probably must admit that al ...

life is likely to be incon ve nient. So we replace the Platonic phi los o- pher with the philosophy professor, scrambling after ...