God, Philosophy, Universities

Alasdair MacIntyre is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He has written 16 books, including After Virtue, Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry, A Short History of Ethics, and, more recently, Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922.

• IntroductionGod, philosophy, UniversitiesChapter 1 GodChapter 2 PhilosophyChapter 3 God and philosophyChapter 4 God, philosophy, universitiesPrologues to the Catholic philosophical traditionChapter 5 AugustineChapter 6 Boethius, PseudoDionysius, AnselmChapter 7 The Islamic and Jewish prologue to Catholic philosophyChapter 8 The genesis of the Catholic philosophical traditionAquinas and afterChapter 9 Aquinas: philosophy and our knowledge of GodChapter 10 Aquinas: philosophy and the life of practiceChapter 11 Aquinas: God, philosophy, universitiesChapter 12 After Aquinas: Scotus and OckhamThe threshold of modern philosophyChapter 13 From scholasticism to scepticismChapter 14 Descartes, Pascal, and ArnauldModernityChapter 15 The Catholic absence from philosophy and the Catholic return to philosophy 1700-1850Chapter 16 Newman: God, philosophy, universitiesChapter 17 From Aeterni Patris to Fides et RatioChapter 18 Fides et Ratio: the Catholic philosophical tradition redefinedChapter 19 Now: Universities, philosophy, GodIndexAbout the Author

While not a work of academic philosophy—MacIntyre intends it for undergraduate seniors and first-year graduate students—this book can profitably be read by any reader of First Things. In fact, it should be so read, as either an introduction or a refresher to the great tradition, and then passed on to a friend.