On the principles of taxing beer and other brief philosophical essays /

"What is real and what is noble, as well as what is deranged and wrong, can often be stated briefly. Nietzsche was famous for his succinct aphorisms and epigrams. Aquinas in one of his responses could manage to state clearly what he held to be true. Ultimately, all of our thought needs to be so...

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Main Author:	Schall, James V. (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	South Bend, Indiana : St. Augustine's Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Philosophy.
Online Access:	Full text (Emmanuel users only)

Table of Contents:

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Acknowledgements
Table of Contents
A Brief Foreword
Chapter 1. On the End of All Things
Chapter 2. On What We Don't Know
Chapter 3. On the Principles for Taxing Beer
Chapter 4. On The Lord of the World
Chapter 5. On the Impartial Reading of Books
Chapter 6. On Pleasures of Our Kind
Chapter 7. On Nothingness
Chapter 8. On the Belloc Sussex Walk of 1902
Chapter 9. On Aquinas and Modernity
Chapter 10. On Travel
Chapter 11. On "Catholic" Universities
Chapter 12. On the Temptation to Organize the World
Chapter 13. On Answers
Chapter 14. On the "Culture of Evil"
Chapter 15. On the Empty Universe
Chapter 16. On the "Right" to Everything
Chapter 17. On Philosophical Eros
Chapter 18. On What If the Truth Didn't Matter
Chapter 19. On Saving the "People from their Sins"
Chapter 20. On Justice
Chapter 21. On Los Gatos
Chapter 22. On the Unequal Distribution of Goods
Chapter 23. On Intelligence
Chapter 24. On the "Right" to Happiness
Chapter 25. On the Shade of "Diabolism"
Chapter 26. On the Fragility of Islam
Chapter 27. On the Point of Human Existence
Chapter 28. On American Un-Exceptionalism
Chapter 29. On Truth
Chapter 30. On General Wolfe's Preference
Chapter 31. On Lying
Chapter 32. On the "End Time"
Chapter 33. On the City of God
Chapter 34. On Words from Wodehouse
Chapter 35. On Lingard's Account of the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
Chapter 36. On Both a Father and a Mother
Chapter 37. On the Word "Violence"
Chapter 38. On Loving Everybody and Nobody
Chapter 39. On the "Jealous" God
Chapter 40. On Old Books and Old Professors
Chapter 41. On the "World's Most Meaningless Talk"
Chapter 42. On the Gorgias Myth
Chapter 43. On Revelation
Chapter 44. On the Heart of the Dons
Chapter 45. On Schulz's "Knowing What We Know"
Chapter 46. On Really Loving the "Hairless Biped"
Chapter 47. On the Depths of Villainy
Chapter 48. On the Philosophy Found on Sports Pages
Chapter 49. On Natural Resources
Chapter 50. On the Logic of Denying "Intelligent Design"
Chapter 51. On the Tyrant
Chapter 52. On Salvation
Chapter 53. On Luck
Chapter 54. On Being a Basel Professor
Chapter 55. On the Alternatives to Humanity
Chapter 56. On the Liberal Education of Reading Lord Peter Wimsey
Chapter 57. On Giving Reasons
Chapter 58. On Merriment
Chapter 59. On "What Everyone Can Enjoy"
A "Briefer" Afterword

On the principles of taxing beer and other brief philosophical essays /

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