The Tragedy of Reason: Toward a Platonic Conception of LogosOutlines an explanation of a contemporary form of Platonism which offers a tragic conception that is able to affirm the value of reason as well as to situate it properly amidst the contingencies of human life. |
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Logos Is Unconditionally Good | 23 |
3 Spinozas Critique of Teleology | 76 |
The Response of Logos | 82 |
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