| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvi, 395 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"Based on the [2d ser. of] Encyclopaedia Britannica lectures delivered [by the author] at the University of Chicago, 1966." |
| Bibliography |
Included bibliographical references (pages 371-367) and index. |
| Language |
"Based on the [2d ser. of] Encyclopaedia Britannica lectures delivered [by the author] at the University of Chicago, 1966." |
| Summary |
"Based on the [2d ser. of] Encyclopaedia Britannica lectures delivered [by the author] at the University of Chicago, 1966." Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. [295]-367) Bibliography: p. 371-387. |
| Contents |
Protestant theology. Karl Barth ; Hermann Diem ; Josef L. Hromádka ; Rudolf Bultmann ; Friedrich Gogarten ; Gerhard Ebeling ; Edmund Schlink ; Gustaf Wingren -- Roman Catholic theology. Yves M.-J. Congar ; Karl Rahner -- Eastern Orthodox theology. Nikos A. Nissiotis -- Current movements in perspective. Converging and diverging paths. |
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The question about man -- The possible answers -- The state of the question, past, present, and future -- The philosophers give all the answers and establish none -- Why Darwin answered the question as he did -- The line drawn by the fossils -- The laboratory findings and their interpretation -- The pivotal fact: human speech -- The pivotal issue: language and thought -- Resolution of the pivotal issue: the negative argument -- Resolution of the pivotal issue: the positive argument -- The efforts of the philosophers to resolve the one issue that remains -- The three prongs of the Cartesian challenge -- The third prong: from Descartes to Turing -- The future resolution of the one remaining issue -- To whom it makes a difference -- The consequences for action -- The consequences for thought. |
| Subject |
Philosophical anthropology.
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Philosophy. (DNLM)D010684
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Anthropology. (DNLM)D000883
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Philosophical anthropology. (OCoLC)fst01060766
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| Added Title |
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-2001. Difference of man and the difference it makes. [1st ed.]. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1967] (OCoLC)586998983 |
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