THE ESSENTIAL CONNECTION BETWEEN COMMON SENSE PHILOSOPHY AND LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE

• Authors: Peter A. Redpath
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article argues that, strictly speaking, from its inception with the ancient Greeks and for all time, philosophy and science are identical and consist in an essential relationship between a specific type of understanding of the human person as possessed of an intellectual soul capable of being habituated and a psychologically-independent composite whole, or organization. It maintains, further, that absence of either one of the extremes of this essential relationship cannot be philosophy/science and, if mistaken for such and applied to the workings of cultural institutions, will generate anarchy within human culture and make leadership excellence impossible to achieve. Finally, it argues that only a return to this “common sense” understanding of philosophy can generate the leadership excellence that can save the West from its current state of cultural and civilizational anarchy.

Keywords

EN

aim; analogy; anarchy; art; body of knowledge; cause; common sense; communication; comprehensive understanding; concept; contrary; contrariety; culture; demonstration; demonstrative; equality; emotion; end; excellence; existence; explanation; fear; genus; habit; happiness; harmony; hierarchically ordered; history; hope; human; humanist; inequality; judgment; knowledge; language; leadership; logic; mathematics; memory; metaphysics; multitude; nature; operational; opposite; order; part; person; philosophy; physical; poetry; principle; quality; reason; receptivity; relationship; renaissance; resistance; rhetoric; science; soul; species; strength; syllogism; system; truth; West; Western civilization; unity; universe; virtue; whole; wonder

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 3: supplement
• Pages: 605-617

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Peter A. Redpath

• Adler–Aquinas Institute, Manitou Springs, CO, USA

Identifiers

ISSN

2300-0066