Human Destinies : Philosophical Essays in Memory of Gerald Hanratty

From 1968 until his death in 2003, Gerald Hanratty was professor of philosophy at University College Dublin. In this volume dedicated to his memory, Fran O'Rourke has assembled twenty-six essays reflecting Hanratty's broad philosophical interests, dealing with central questions of human existence and the ultimate meaning of the universe. Whether engaged in historical investigations into Gnosticism or the Enlightenment, Hanratty was concerned with fundamental themes in the philosophy of religion and philosophical anthropology. Human Destinies brings together a wide range of approaches to these central questions. Included are historical studies of classical thinkers of the ancient and medieval periods (Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas) and studies of numerous modern authors (among them, Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Marcel, Adorno, Derrida, Plantinga, Scruton, and many others). Contributors: Fran O'Rourke, Peter L. P. Simpson, Rowland Stout, Andrew Smith, Eoin G. Cassidy, Cyril O'Regan, Michael Nolan, Patrick Masterson, Tim Lynch, James R. O'Shea, Ciarán McGlynn, Maria Baghramian, Mark Dooley, Brendan Purcell, Brendan Sweetman, Ciarán Benson, Richard Kearney, Dermot Moran, Belinda McKeon, Brian Elliott, Eileen Brennan, Liberato Santoro-Brienza, Brian O'Connor, Timothy Mooney, David Walsh, and Gerard Casey. Cover Half title Frontispiece Title page Copyright Contents Introduction Chapter One: Human Nature and Destiny in Aristotle Chapter Two: Aristotle’s Self Chapter Three: Mechanisms That Respond to Reasons Chapter Four: Plotinus on Fate and Free Will Chapter Five: A Zealous Convert Chapter Six: Answering Back Chapter Seven: Man’s Natural Condition Chapter Eight: Philosophical Sources of Aquinas’ Quarta Via Chapter Nine: Philosophy and Its Value Chapter Ten: Kant and Dennett on the Epistemic Status of Teleological Principles Chapter Eleven: Human Nature and One-Eyed Reason Chapter Twelve: Relativism and Religious Diversity Chapter Thirteen: The Plagues of Desecration Chapter Fourteen: Dawkins’ Fear of Reason Chapter Fifteen: The Experiential Argument for the Existence of God in Gabriel Marcel and Alvin Plantinga Chapter Sixteen: A Secular Spirituality? Chapter Seventeen: Eucharistic Imagination in Merleau-Ponty and James Joyce Chapter Eighteen: Immanence, Self-Experience, and Transcendence in Edmund Husserl, Edith Stein, and Karl Jaspers Chapter Nineteen: Presuming the Other from Stein to Husserl Chapter Twenty: The Unity of Thought in Aristotle, Kant, and Heidegger Chapter Twenty-one: Communication, Struggle, and Human Destiny Chapter Twenty-two: Forgetting Aristotle? Chapter Twenty-three: Immanent Transcendence? Chapter Twenty-four: On Losing Uniqueness Chapter Twenty-five: The Person and the Common Good Chapter Twenty-six: Ethics and Economics Contributors Index Human Destinies brings together a wide range of approaches to the central questions posed by the philosophy of religion and philosophical anthropology.