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An Yves R. Simon Reader

The Philosopher's Calling

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An Yves R. Simon Reader

The Philosopher's Calling

By: Yves R. Simon

An Yves R. Simon Reader is the first collection of texts from the entirety of the philosopher’s work. French Catholic (and then American) political philosopher Yves R. Simon was a student of Jacques Maritain and one of the most important figures in the revival of Thomism. His work, however, is still little known in English, and there is as yet no English biography of him. In An Yves R. Simon Reader: The Philosopher’s Calling, Michael D. Torre provides an erudite and helpful introduction to Simon’s life and thought. The volume contains selected key texts from all of Simon’s twenty books, half of which were published posthumously, dividing them into three sections. The first fundamentally defends the Aristotelian and Thomistic account of human knowing. The second begins with his groundbreaking discussion of human freedom and ends with his account of practical wisdom. The third then expands this account to cover the chief concerns of his social and political philosophy. The selections are long enough to be substantive and contain sustained and complete arguments. Each selection has its own foreword by an eminent commentator, familiar with Simon’s work, who lays out the necessary context for the reader. An Yves R. Simon Reader includes sections from several of Simon’s last and most important essays: on sensitive knowledge and on the analogous nature of “act.” It includes a number of excerpts from his justly famous account and defense of democratic government. The hallmarks of his work—his careful conceptual analysis, his genius for finding undervalued examples, and his talent for creating expressions that revivified an outworn idea—are on display throughout. Indeed, as one of the book’s contributors says, Simon touched nothing that he did not adorn. The result is a highly readable introduction to the thought of a key and underappreciated modern philosopher. Contributors: Michael D. Torre, Jude P. Dougherty, Raymond Dennehy, John C. Cahalan, Steven A. Long, Ralph Nelson, John P. Hittinger, Ralph McInerny, David B. Burrell, CSC, Laurence Berns, Catherine Green, W. David Solomon, V. Bradley Lewis, Joseph W. Koterski, SJ, James V. Schall, SJ, George Anastaplo, Walter J. Nicgorski, John A. Gueguen, Jr., Thomas R. Rourke, Jeanne Heffernan Schindler, and Robert Royal.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268108315

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Work, Society, and Culture

By: Yves R. Simon

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Work, Society, and Culture

By: Yves R. Simon

Yves R. Simon: A bibliography, 1923-1970, compiled by Anthony O. Simon": pages [189]-226.

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An Yves R. Simon Reader

The Philosopher's Calling

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The Tradition of Natural Law

A Philosopher's Reflections

By: Vukan Kuic,Yves R. Simon

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A Philosopher's Reflections

By: Vukan Kuic,Yves R. Simon

Available in a new digital edition with reflowable text suitable for e-readers The tradition of natural law is one of the foundations of Western civilization. At its heart is the conviction that there is an objective and universal justice which transcends humanity’s particular expressions of justice. It asserts that there are certain ways of behaving which are appropriate to humanity simply by virtue of the fact that we are all human beings. Recent political debates indicate that it is not a tradition that has gone unchallenged: in fact, the opposition is as old as the tradition itself. By distinguishing between philosophy and ideology, by recalling the historical adventures of natural law, and by reviewing the theoretical problems involved in the doctrine, Simon clarifies much of the confusion surrounding this perennial debate. He tackles the questions raised by the application of natural law with skill and honesty as he faces the difficulties of the subject. Simon warns against undue optimism in a revival of interest in natural law and insists that the study of natural law beings with the analysis of “the law of the land.” He writes not as a polemicist but as a philosopher, and he writes of natural law with the same force, conciseness, lucidity and simplicity which have distinguished all his other works.

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1531510809

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Philosopher at Work

Essays

By: Yves R. Simon

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Philosopher at Work

Essays

By: Yves R. Simon

Like no other philosopher of this century, the late Yves R. Simon grappled with philosophical issues that still carry weight today. This collection of his essays explores an impressive range of genuinely foundational topics of philosophical inquiry. These essays discuss, among other topics, the relationship between faith and reason, the nature of sensation, and the various meanings of work. SimonOs significant contribution to philosophy through these varied essays is unquestionable, and this is the first such collection of his works. Philosopher at Work will be indispensable for philosophers of all backgrounds.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0847692396

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An Introduction to Metaphysics of Knowledge

By: Yves R. Simon

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An Introduction to Metaphysics of Knowledge

By: Yves R. Simon

The present volume is the product of several years of collaboration at a distance between two people who both knew Yres R. Simon personally and admired his work. The question raised by Simon more than half a century ago, when this book was first published, are still with us: What is the nature of knowledge? What kind of activity is it to know? What is involved in the development of human knowledge? If one had to describe Simon's accomplishment by reducing it to a single point, what he succeeded in showing was that an ontology of knowledge based on common experience disproves all idealism and leads to realism by strictest necessity.

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0823212637

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The Tradition of Natural Law

A Philosopher's Reflections

By: Vukan Kuic,Yves R. Simon

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The Community of the Free

By: Yves R. Simon

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The Community of the Free

By: Yves R. Simon

Originally published in 1947 by Henry Holt and Company, this book examines the need to understand the nature of the forces that must be conquered in order to make a better world. Having come of age in the aftermath of the First World War, the author analyzes the causes of mankind's failure to prevent its even more horrible and devastating successor, the Second World War. Simon attributes this failure primarily to a "confusion of conscience".

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University Press of America

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0819143383

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A General Theory of Authority

By: Yves R. Simon

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A General Theory of Authority

By: Yves R. Simon

A General Theory of Authority was first printed in 1962 and is a classic treatment of authority and its relation to justice, life, truth, and order. In recent years authority has been seen as an enemy of freedom, autonomy, and development. In this book the renowned philosopher Yves R. Simon, himself a passionate proponent of liberty, analyzes the idea of authority and defends it as an essential concomitant of liberty. Simon sees authority as the catalyst necessary to bring together the seemingly disparate demands of liberty on one hand and order on the other. Simon’s perceptive discussion of how authority differs from law enables him to highlight the effective and personal role that authority can play in the life of the individual and for the good of the community. Professor Yves R. Simon was an esteemed philosopher and teacher at several American universities, including Notre Dame and the University of Chicago. He published numerous books and articles, many of which remain as classic pieces of political and social philosophy. Professor Simon died in 1961.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789126967

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Practical Knowledge

By: Yves René Marie Simon

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Practical Knowledge

By: Yves René Marie Simon

Yves R. Simon (1903-1961) was one of this century's greatest students of the virtue of practical wisdom. Simon's interest in this virtue ranged from ultimate theoretical and foundational concerns, such as the relationship between practical knowledge and science, to the most concrete and immediate questions regarding the role of practical wisdom in personal and social decision-making. These concerns occupied Simon from his earliest published writing to the final notes and correspondence he was working on at the moment of his untimely death. Throughout his life, practical wisdom and its related philosophical ramifications emerge time and again at critical junctures, throwing into bold relief some of the deeper dimensions of questions as diverse as the nature of democracy, the concept of law, and the theory of work. Practical knowledge constitutes a unifying motif of Simon's entire encyclopedic effort. This volume reconstructs what would have been Simon's final sustained writing on practical knowledge. It includes reworking of some previously published material, especially the landmark 1961 essay, "Introduction to the Study of Practical Wisdom," possibly the best treatment of the concept of "command" in recent philosophical writing. But it also reproduces, in a form closely corresponding to Simon's intention, material drawn from notes and schemata, concerning issues such as the relationship between moral science and wisdom, the nature of practical judgment, and the relationship between practical knowledge and Christian moral philosophy. Also included are previously unpublished letters to Jacques Maritain on the controversy surrounding the theoretical-practical and practico-practical syllogisms, as well as Maritain's responses. The volume concludes with applications of Simon's general theory to a critique of the concept of a social science and to the notion of Christian humanism. This volume will appeal to moral philosophers interested in a range of normative issues, as well as social scientists and readers concerned with the philosophical foundations of modern culture. Virtue moralist, in particular, will find in Simon one of the profoundest commentators on this tradition in normative ethics.

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082321317X

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The Tradition of Natural Law

A Philosopher's Reflections

By: Yves René Marie Simon

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A Philosopher's Reflections

By: Yves René Marie Simon

The tradition of natural law is one of the foundations of Western civilization. At its heart is the conviction that there is an objective and universal justice which transcends humanity's particular expressions of justice. It asserts that there are certain ways of behaving which are appropriate to humanity simply by virtue of the fact that we are all human beings. Recent political debates indicate that it is not a tradition that has gone unchallenged: in fact, the opposition is as old as the tradition itself. By distinguishing between philosophy and ideology, by recalling the historical adventures of natural law, and by reviewing the theoretical problems involved in the doctrine, Simon clarifies much of the confusion surrounding this perennial debate. He tackles the questions raised by the application of natural law with skill and honesty as he faces the difficulties of the subject. Simon warns against undue optimism in a revival of interest in natural law and insists that the study of natural law beings with the analysis of "the law of the land." He writes not as a polemicist but as a philosopher, and he writes of natural law with the same force, conciseness, lucidity and simplicity which have distinguished all his other works.

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Philosopher at Work

Essays

By: Yves R. Simon

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Essays

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Jacques Maritain, Yves Simon: Les années américaines (1941-1961)

By: Jacques Maritain,Yves René Marie Simon,René Mougel,Anthony O. Simon

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Jacques Maritain, Yves Simon: Les années américaines (1941-1961)

By: Jacques Maritain,Yves René Marie Simon,René Mougel,Anthony O. Simon

Ce deuxième volume de la correspondance entre Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) et Yves Simon (1903-1961) jette une nouvelle lumière sur les "années américaines" des deux philosophes. Animateur de la résistance spirituelle et intellectuelle, Jacques Maritain est à New York jusqu'en 1945 : dans les lettres à Yves Simon, il décrit de l'intérieur les milieux émigrés français de la Côte Est et les instances gouvernementales et administratives américaines. Yves Simon, depuis le Midwest, s'engage aussi dans les débats intellectuels et politiques que le naufrage de la République française exige. Les deux auteurs s'appuient sur leur longue amitié et sur leur commune expérience des années 30 pour organiser les publications de résistance en Amérique et penser une sortie de guerre. Ils rédigent et commentent mutuellement leurs oeuvres destinées à jouer un rôle de premier plan dans l'Europe occupée puis libérée. A la demande du général de Gaulle et de Georges Bidault, Maritain accepte d'être nommé ambassadeur de France auprès du Saint-Siège en 1945. En 1948, il revient pour enseigner la philosophie à l'université de Princeton, où il séjourne douze ans. Yves Simon est alors à l'université de Chicago. Signe à la fois d'une bonne intégration des intellectuels français au sein de l'université américaine et d'une meilleure acceptation de la pensée catholique dans les milieux séculiers américains, les années 1950 semblent un âge d'or et voient la publication d'ouvrages très importants, comme L'Homme et l'Etat ou Philosophy of a Democratic Government, qui se situent dans le prolongement des oeuvres de guerre et proposent, dans le contexte politique de l'après- guerre, un affinement de la pensée catholique à l'égard de la démocratie. L'expérience américaine des deux philosophes est de ce point de vue déterminante.

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