Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: On Trying to Be an Aristotelian or a Thomist in Today's World
Part I. Quieting Various of the Alarms and Excursions in Recent Philosophy
1. Can Philosophy Ever Be a Thing for Hoosiers?
2. Folly and Sense in Present-Day Philosophy
3. Is Quine a Metaphysician?
4. Richard Rorty's Would-Be Deconstruction of Analytic Philosophy
Part II. What Price Ethics in the Eyes of Modern Moral Philosophyers?
5. Telos and Teleology in Aristotelian Ethics
6. Variations, Good and Bad, on the Theme of Right Reason in Ethics
7. Language and Ethics: "What's Hecuba to Him, or He to Hecuba?"
8. In Appreciation and Refutation of Alan Gewirth's Principle of Generic Consistency
9. Ethical Egoism, New Style: Should Its Trademark Be Libertarian or Aristotelian?
Part III. A Concluding Miscellany, Ranging From a Defense of the Humanities to a Defense of Natural Law
10. The What and the Why of the Humanities
11. Why Need a General Be Human?
12. The Poor, Hapless Humanities
13. Natural Law: Dead or Alive?
14. Can John Finnis Bring Off a Revival of Natural Law?
15. Natural Law and the "Is-"Ought" Question: Queries to Finnis and Grisez
16. A Poor Benighted Philosopher Looks at the Issue of Judicial Activism
Select Bibliography
Index