Athens and Jerusalem -- The Collected Works of Leo Strauss

Author: [Russian] Chestov, translated by Zhang Bing
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: According to the Bible, the frantic struggle for the possibility of faith is faith. The truth of this faith is absurd to the laws of this world. Yet this absurdity is truly believable. This book this modern existentialist giant's head striking against the wall of reason and the brilliant arguments promoting the life-will philosophy of "Because of the Absurd, It Is Believable." Every sentence delivers an extreme shock and to our minds and wills. The book consists of four chapters. Chapter 1—“The Bound Parmenides”— proves that the great philosophers, in their pursuit of knowledge, wasted the Creator's most precious talent—freedom. Chapter 2—“Inside the Bull of Phalaris”—reveals the unbreakable relationship between the knowledge understood by philosophy and the fear of survival. Chapter 3—“The Inexpressible Longing”—tells how the entire Middle Ages futilely tried to reconcile the revelatory truth of the Bible with Greek truth. Chapter 4—“On the Second Dimension of Thinking”—is based on the argument that rational truth may force us, but it is far from always convincing us.