Sets itself the Herculean task of comparing and reconciling the modern and Platonic concepts of rationality.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Do Freedom and Indeterminacy Make Man a Cultural Being? Or, Why Antiquity Seems Antiquated
"Healthy Common Sense" and the Nature/Culture Antithesis
The Interpretation of "Antiquity" from the Perspective of Modern Rationality
The Epistemological Foundations of a Philosophy of Discrimination
Abstract Consciousness versus Concrete Thought: Overcoming the Opposition between Feeling and Reason in a Philosophy of Discrimination
The Soul in a Philosophy of Consciousness and in a Philosophy of Discrimination
The Different Forms of Volition and Their Dependence upon Cognition
The Aesthetic, Ethical, and Political Significance of a Culture of Feelings in Plato and Aristotle
Theory and Practice: Plato's and Aristotle's Grounding of Political Theory in a Theory of Man
Evolutionary and Biological Conditions for Self-Preservation and Rational Conditions for Man's Self-Realization: An Appeal for a New Evaluation of Rationality
The Contrast "Ancient" versus "Modern"
Characteristic Differences between the Platonic-Aristotelian and the Hellenistic Understanding of Rationality
Index
