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The Importance of Gilson
The Importance of Gilson

Author(s): Peter A. Redpath
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: International Étienne Gilson Society
Keywords: Étienne Gilson; Western civilization; Western Creed; Scientific Creed

Summary/Abstract: The author aims at answering why preserving, reading, and understanding the work of Étienne Gilson is crucial for the Western civilization if one wishes to be able to understand precisely the problems that are besetting the West and how one can best resolve them. He claims that among all the leading intellectuals of the past or present generation, no one has better diagnosed the philosophical ills of Western culture and better understood the remedy for those ills than has Étienne Gilson.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 45-52
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English