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Tables of Contents for The Rediscovery of Wisdom
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction
1
5
Philosophy without Wisdom
6
25
The present-day philosophical landscape
6
10
The forgetting of wisdom
16
3
Three case-studies
19
9
The betrayal of sophia
28
3
The Classical Conception of Philosophy
31
48
Philosophy as quest for sophia
31
3
Plato on the form of the good
34
19
Aristotle's Unmoved Mover
53
19
The Unmoved Mover and the Judaeo-Christian God
72
2
Aristotle on the purpose of creation
74
5
The Decline and Fall of the Classical Conception
79
55
Philosophy in the age of wisdom
79
11
The Copernican Revolution
90
8
God's unwilling executioners
98
7
The assault on the Cosmological Argument
105
11
The assault on the Argument from Design
116
10
God's jubilant obituarist
126
8
The Wisdom of the Book Revisited
134
37
The hieroglyph of wisdom
134
12
Revelation in Christian orthodoxy
146
9
Revelation in Jewish orthodoxy
155
5
Revelation without grace or favour
160
11
Conclusion
171
6
Notes
177
11
Bibliography
188
5
Name Index
193
2
Subject Index
195