THE IMPORTANCE OF GILSON
Journal Title: Studia Gilsoniana - Year 2012, Vol 1, Issue
Abstract
The author aims at answering why preserving, reading, and understanding the work of Étienne Gilson is crucial for the Western civilization if one wishes to be able to understand precisely the problems that are besetting the West and how one can best resolve them. He claims that among all the leading intellectuals of the past or present generation, no one has better diagnosed the philosophical ills of Western culture and better understood the remedy for those ills than has Étienne Gilson.
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Peter A. Redpath
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