PHILOSOPHIES AT WAR

Sheen, Fulton J. [Roman Catholicism] [Anti-Fascism]

Edité par Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943

First Printing with Scribner's seal and 'A' to verso. [8], 200pp. 12mo, blue cloth with with white stamped author name and white-blocked negative title to spine and front cover. Pen check to the title page and to a handful of titles on the 'Books by Monsignor Sheen' list in the front matter, some scattered pen marks through p. 30, a few rear leaves cut a bit jagged; otherwise a very clean, sharp copy with fresh pages and tight, square binding. DJ with some shallow loss around the extremities and one chip intruding into the anvil and tagline at front head, otherwise clean and bright with price of $2.00 intact. Quite scarce in jacket. A crossover hit by the most popular Catholic writer of the 20th century, Sheen's Philosophies at War is a contribution to the war effort, offering a theological and philosophical case against Fascism and Naziism. Well known to Americans from his 'Catholic Hour' radio program, Scribner's bolsters Sheen's academic cred on the DJ flap, noting that he was 'Disctinguished first as a scholar, educated in this country and in Europe. In 1926, the University of Louvain awarded him the Cardinarl Mercier prize for International Philosophy; and in 1936 he was awarded the Cardinal Mazella medal from Georgetown University.' The dust jacket flap describes the book thus: 'Monsignor Sheen gives in this book his conception of the underlying causes of the war, and of the ways by which the war may be most truly won. This is not only a war between armies, he explains; the battles we are fighting are but the physical manifestations of the revolution that is going on. In this revolution we must defeat 'the active barbarism from without and we must defeat the passive barbarism from within.' There are three kinds of freedom in the world, says Monsignor Sheen: 'freedom to do what you please; freedom to do what you must; and freedom to do what you ought.' It is because the democracies fell away from the moral law and entered upon a course of materialism-'freedom to do what you pleasei ?that they are now having to fight this war against those who, on their side, fell away from 'freedom to do what you ought' toward 'freedom to do what you must.' The ethics of Fascism and Naziism deny the importance of the individual man and recognize only man in the mass, thus destroying the sacredness of personality.'. N° de réf. du vendeur 509013

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : PHILOSOPHIES AT WAR
Éditeur : Charles Scribner's Sons
Date d'édition : 1943
Reliure : Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Etat : GOOD
Etat de la jaquette : Very Good
Edition : Edition originale