The quest for meaning : friends of wisdom from Plato to Levinas - Peperzak, Adriaan Theodoor, 1929- (New York : Fordham University Press, 2003)
Instead of an introduction -- Philosophia. The question : Philosophia ; Philosophy as participation in history -- Christians who philosophize : Faith ; Culture ; The philosophy of Christians ; Theology ; The "spirit" of philosophy ; Integration ; Modern philosophy ; Experience ; Autonomy of reason? ; Philosophia -- Why Plato now? Diagnosis : Pleasure ; Authenticity and semblance ; The culture of semblance and pleasure ; Philosophy -- Plato's ideal : Desire and desires -- The philosopher in the city -- Platonic and Christian hope. Hope in the Phaedo -- Christian hope -- Conversion -- Fulfillment. The question -- Christianity and Judaism -- Christianity and "Greece" : Plato's ideal ; Metanoia ; Faith and theory ; Praeparatio Evangelica? ; Plato and Christ -- Anselm's Proslogion and its Hegelian interpretation. Hegel on Anselm -- Anselm -- Anselm against Hegel -- Two remarks -- Ascent: Plotinian motifs in Bonaventure's Itinerary of the mind to God. Plotinus' travel guide to God -- Bonaventure's guidance for the encounter with God : Creation ; History ; The one (chapter five) ; The good (chapter six) -- Bonaventure's contribution to the twentieth century debate on Apophatic theology. Bonaventure and Apophatic theology -- Desire for wisdom -- The wisdom of the cross -- Life, science, and wisdom according to Descartes. Philosophy and Christianity (An hour with Pascal). Philosophy -- Theory and wisdom -- Christianity -- Christian and philosopher -- Pascal's Memorial : The living God and the God of "philosophy" -- Philosophy and belief -- Can a Christian be a philosopher? -- Leibniz on God and suffering. Suffering -- Suffering and evil -- Why is there evil? -- The utility of evil -- God and freedom -- The God of Leibniz -- The battle with God -- Ignorance and acceptance -- Toward peace -- Hegel and modern culture. Hegel's framework -- Freedom -- Culture -- Absolute spirit -- Hegel Now? -- Epilogue -- The significance of Levinas for Christian thought. God -- Salvation and the law -- Mysticism and love -- Death -- Resurrection and forgiveness -- Autonomy and heteronomy.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-233) and index.
Keywords: Meaning (Philosophy) -- History