Philosophy And The Social Problem

About this eBook

Author

Durant, Will, 1885-1981

Title

Philosophy and the Social Problem

Credits

Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)

Language

English

LoC Class

B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion

Subject

Social problems

Category

Text

eBook-No.

42880

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42880

Release Date

June 5, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.PHILOSOPHY AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM — CONTENTS
2. 2.PART I HISTORICAL APPROACH — PHILOSOPHY AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM — INTRODUCTION — CHAPTER I THE PRESENT SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SOCRATIC ETHIC — I History as Rebarbarization — II Philosophy as Disintegrator — III Individualism in Athens — IV The Sophists — V Intelligence as Virtue — VI The Meaning of Virtue — VII “Instinct” and “Reason” — VIII The Secularization of Morals — IX “Happiness” and “Virtue” — X The Socratic Challenge — CHAPTER II PLATO: PHILOSOPHY AS POLITICS — I The Man and the Artist — II How to Solve the Social Problem — III On Making Philosopher-Kings — IV Dishonest Democracy — V Culture and Slavery — VI Plasticity and Order — VII The Meaning of Justice — VIII The Future of Plato — CHAPTER III FRANCIS BACON AND THE SOCIAL POSSIBILITIES OF SCIENCE — I From Plato to Bacon — II Character — III The Expurgation of the Intellect — IV Knowledge is Power — V The Socialization of Science — VI Science and Utopia — VII Scholasticism in Science — VIII The Asiatics of Europe — CHAPTER IV SPINOZA ON THE SOCIAL PROBLEM [82] — I Hobbes — II The Spirit of Spinoza — III Political Ethics — IV Is Man a Political Animal? — V What the Social Problem Is — VI Free Speech — VII Virtue as Power — VIII Freedom and Order — IX Democracy and Intelligence — X The Legacy of Spinoza — CHAPTER V NIETZSCHE — I From Spinoza to Nietzsche — II Biographical — III Exposition — IV Criticism — V Nietzsche Replies — VI Conclusion
3. 3.PART II SUGGESTIONS — CHAPTER I SOLUTIONS AND DISSOLUTIONS — I The Problem — II “Solutions” — III Dissolutions — CHAPTER II THE RECONSTRUCTIVE FUNCTION OF PHILOSOPHY — I Epistemologs — II Philosophy as Control — III Philosophy as Mediator between Science and Statesmanship — CHAPTER III ORGANIZED INTELLIGENCE — I The Need — II The Organization of Intelligence — III Information of Panacea — IV Sex, Art, and Play in Social Reconstruction — V Education — CHAPTER IV THE READER SPEAKS — I The Democratization of Aristocracy — II The Professor as Buridan’s Ass — III Is Information Wanted? — IV Finding Mæcenas — V The Chance of Philosophy — CONCLUSION

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