The cave and the light [Texte imprimé] : Plato versus Aristotle and the struggle for the soul of Western civilization / Arthur Herman

Bibliogr. p. [623]-641

The first philosopher -- The soul of reason -- The mind of God -- The doctor's son -- Good citizen or philosopher king? -- The inheritors : philosophy in the Hellenistic age -- Knowledge is power -- Hole in the soul : Plato and Aristotle in Rome -- Dancing in the light -- Christ is come : Platonism and Christianity -- Ward the Heavenly City -- Inquiring minds : Aristotle strikes back -- Celestial harmonies : Plato in the Middle Ages -- At the summit : Arabs, Aristotle, and Saint Thomas Aquinas -- The razor's edge -- The paradoxes of liberty -- The creative ascent : Plato in the high Renaissance -- Twilight of the scholastics : the Reformation and the doom of Aristotle -- Secrets of the heavens : Plato, Galileo, and the new science -- Aristotle's periwig : the culture of the enlightenment -- Starting over : Plato, Rousseau, and revolution -- "Feeling is all" : the triumph of the Romantics -- Victorian crossroads : Hegel, Marx, and Mill -- The scale of nature : Darwin, evolution, and the mind of Aristotle