Philosophy and the Liberal Arts

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Phenomenology and the Objective of Historiography

   • Edward Goodwin Ballard

   Pages 1-12

3. The Idea of Being: A Platonic Speculation

   • Edward Goodwin Ballard

   Pages 13-27

4. On Parsing the Parmenides

   • Edward Goodwin Ballard

   Pages 28-48

5. On Participation: Beginning a Philosophical Grammar

   • Edward Goodwin Ballard

   Pages 49-65

6. On Ritual and Rhetoric in Plato

   • Edward Goodwin Ballard

   Pages 66-79

7. The Two Republics: A Study in Dialectic

   • Edward Goodwin Ballard

   Pages 80-92

8. The Liberal Arts and Plato’s Relation to Them

   • Edward Goodwin Ballard

   Pages 93-112

9. Saint Augustine’s Christian Dialectic

   • Edward Goodwin Ballard

   Pages 113-119

10. Faith and Reason in Plato and ST. Augustine: A Further Dialectic

    • Edward Goodwin Ballard

    Pages 120-133

11. Descartes’ Revision of the Cartesian Dualism

    • Edward Goodwin Ballard

    Pages 134-154

12. On Kants Philosophic Grammar of Mathematics

    • Edward Goodwin Ballard

    Pages 155-174

13. Is Modern Physics Possible within Kant’s Philosophy?

    • Edward Goodwin Ballard

    Pages 175-190

14. On Kant’s Refutation of Metaphysics

    • Edward Goodwin Ballard

    Pages 191-210

15. Husserl’s Ideas in the Liberal Arts Tradition

    • Edward Goodwin Ballard

    Pages 211-226

16. On the Structure and Value of the Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty

    • Edward Goodwin Ballard

    Pages 227-273

17. The Unity of the Liberal Arts and the University

    • Edward Goodwin Ballard

    Pages 274-293

18. Modes of Being and Their Relation to the Liberal Arts and Artist

    • Edward Goodwin Ballard

    Pages 294-327

19. Back Matter

    Pages 329-342

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As this collection of essays demonstrates, over a long career Edward Goodwin Ballard has written on a wide range of topics of philosophical interest. Although the present volume can be enjoy­ ably browsed, it is not simply a sampling of his writings. Rather, herein Professor Ballard has chosen and organized essays which pertain to the major concerns of his philosophic life. He has long held that the function of philosophy, particularly in a time such as ours, is the discernment and analysis of basic principles (archai) and their consequences. Indeed, in Philosophy at the Crossroads. he recommended focusing upon the history of philosophy understood as the movement of recognizing and interpreting the shifts in first principles as they reflect and determine human change. For Ballard, the study of the history of philosophy, like philosophy itself, is not so much a body of knowledge as an exercise (an art) whiQh moves the practitioner towards social and individual maturity. He holds, along with Plato and Husserl, that philosophy is a process of conversion to the love of wisdom as well as a grasp of the means for its attainment. Throughout his writings, Ballard has maintained that the difficulties of this journey have to do with the limitations of the pilgrim. Human being is perspectival, finite, and inevitably ignorant. Philosophic command and self -recognition reside in the just assessment of the limits of human knowledge.

• Edmund Husserl
• Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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• event
• phenomenology

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