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The cave and the light, Plato versus Aristotle, and the struggle for the soul of Western civilization, Arthur Herman

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 623-642) and index

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The cave and the light

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Arthur Herman

Plato versus Aristotle, and the struggle for the soul of Western civilization

The School of Athens -- The First Philosopher -- The Soul of Reason -- The Mind of God -- The Doctor's Son -- Good Citizen or Philosopher Ruler -- The Inheritors: Philosophy in the Hellenistic Age -- Knowledge is Power -- Hole in the Soul: Plato and Aristotle in Rome -- Dancing in the Light: The Birth of Neoplatonism -- Christ Is Come: Plato and Christianity -- Toward the Heavenly City -- Inquiring Minds: Aristotle Strikes Back -- Celestial Harmonies: Plato in the Middle Ages -- At the Summit: Arabs, Aristotle, and Saint Thomas Aquinas -- The Razor's Edge -- Aristotle, Machiavelli, and the Paradoxes of Liberty -- The Creative Ascent: Plato and the High Renaissance -- Twilight of the Scholastics: The Reformation and the Doom of Aristotle -- Secrets of the Heavens: Plato, Galileo, and the New Science -- God, Kings, and Philosophers in the Age of Genius -- Aristotle in a Periwig: The Culture of the Enlightenment -- Starting Over: Plato, Rousseau, and Revolution -- "Feeling Is All": The Triumph of the Romantics -- Victorian Crossroads: Hegel, Marx, and Mill -- The Scale of Nature: Darwin, Evolution, and Aristotle's God -- Unseen Worlds: Physics, Relativity, and the New World Picture -- Triumph of the Will: Nietzsche and the Death of Reason -- Common Sense Nation: Plato, Aristotle, and American Exceptionalism -- Worlds at War: Plato and Aristotle in the Violent Century -- From the Cave to the Light

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