Publisher:[Chicago] : H.H. Benton ; New York : Distributed to the trade by Praeger, c1973.
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographies.
Formatted Contents Note:
I. The hero and the heroic ideal : a symposium. The hero and the heroic ideal in Great books of the western world -- We must have heroes / S.L.A. Marshall -- No more heroes / Ron Dorfman -- Heroism and fortitude / Josef Pieper -- Heroes in black and white / Joy Gould Boyum -- The hero as a world figure / Sidney Hook -- Heroes for an ordinary world / Chaim Potok. II. The widening gyre : philosophy in the twentieth century / W.T. Jones -- The anatomy of justice in taxation / Walter J. Blum and Harry Kalven, Jr. -- A fresh look at Copernicus / Owen Gingerich. IV. The idea of freedom, part two / Charles Van Doren. V. In defense of Socrates / Xenophon -- The song of Roland -- Religio Medici / Sir Thomas Browne -- She stoops to conquer / Oliver Goldsmith.