The Synthesis of Athens and Jerusalem : George Grant's Defense Against Modernity

ISBN-13: 9783639112535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 116 str.

Andrew Kaethler

Opis

This book examines the way in which George Grant, oneof Canada''s most famous political philosophers, holdstogether the great intellectual traditions of Athensand Jerusalem. By combining these two greattraditions in an uneasy synthesis Grant sought toremove the impurities of technology and historicism.Inevitably this brought him into contact with thegreat philosophical geniuses Martin Heidegger andFriedrich Nietzsche. These German thinkers broughtgreat clarity to Grant''s thought,but they alsorepresented that which Grant sought to defendagainst, modernity. Grant''s synthesis of Platonismand western Christianity provides the checks andbalance to learn from Heidegger and Nietzsche and yetenough force to defend against them. With thissynthesis Grant hopes to provide a horizon with whichjustice and morality can be measured, and a way ofknowing in which intimations of God are visible.Grant is successful in this respect; however, hisengagement with Heidegger and Nietzsche did not leavehis theology unscathed.

O autorze

Andrew Kaethler currently lives with his wife and two daughters
in Klaipeda Lithuania and teaches philosophy and theology at LCC
International University. He completed his MA in Religion,
Culture and Ethics at Trinity Western University.