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Des vérités devenues folles by Rémi Brague
Des vérités devenues folles by Rémi Brague

Author(s): Brian Welter
Subject(s): Philosophy, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life
Published by: International Étienne Gilson Society
Keywords: Rémi Brague; virtue; value; anthropology; nature; creation; family; culture; modernity;

Summary/Abstract: This paper is a review of the book: Rémi Brague, Des vérités devenues folles (Paris: Salvator, 2019). The book is a collection of Brague’s lectures that cover virtue and values, anthropology, nature and creation, and the family and culture. The author highlights that Brague (1) calls his readers back to the profound insights of the medieval mind, and (2) helps them see that their noble and urgent task consists in handing on a living tradition to the next generation and beyond.

  • Issue Year: 9/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 319-324
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English