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Swimming Against the Current in Contemporary Philosophy
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Looks at being a follower of Aristotle or St. Thomas Aquinas in a modern philosophical world.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Introduction: On Trying to Be an Aristotelian or a Thomist in Today's World
  2. pp. 1-20
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  1. Part I. Quieting Various of the Alarms and Excursions in Recent Philosophy
  2. pp. 21-22
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  1. 1. Can Philosophy Ever Be a Thing for Hoosiers?
  2. pp. 23-42
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  1. 2. Folly and Sense in Present-Day Philosophy
  2. pp. 43-56
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  1. 3. Is Quine a Metaphysician?
  2. pp. 57-79
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  1. 4. Richard Rorty's Would-Be Deconstruction of Analytic Philosophy
  2. pp. 80-96
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  1. Part II. What Price Ethics in the Eyes of Modern Moral Philosophyers?
  2. pp. 97-98
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  1. 5. Telos and Teleology in Aristotelian Ethics
  2. pp. 99-116
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  1. 6. Variations, Good and Bad, on the Theme of Right Reason in Ethics
  2. pp. 117-140
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  1. 7. Language and Ethics: "What's Hecuba to Him, or He to Hecuba?"
  2. pp. 141-157
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  1. 8. In Appreciation and Refutation of Alan Gewirth's Principle of Generic Consistency
  2. pp. 158-172
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  1. 9. Ethical Egoism, New Style: Should Its Trademark Be Libertarian or Aristotelian?
  2. pp. 173-198
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  1. Part III. A Concluding Miscellany, Ranging From a Defense of the Humanities to a Defense of Natural Law
  2. pp. 199-200
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  1. 10. The What and the Why of the Humanities
  2. pp. 201-218
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  1. 11. Why Need a General Be Human?
  2. pp. 219-236
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  1. 12. The Poor, Hapless Humanities
  2. pp. 237-253
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  1. 13. Natural Law: Dead or Alive?
  2. pp. 254-278
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  1. 14. Can John Finnis Bring Off a Revival of Natural Law?
  2. pp. 279-292
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  1. 15. Natural Law and the "Is-"Ought" Question: Queries to Finnis and Grisez
  2. pp. 293-311
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  1. 16. A Poor Benighted Philosopher Looks at the Issue of Judicial Activism
  2. pp. 312-330
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  1. Select Bibliography
  2. pp. 331-334
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 335-338
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