Sentences with phrase «entire argument of this book»

The focal point around which the entire argument of this book revolves is that the cardinal goal of instruction in whatever field, from physics to etiquette to race relations, should be the development of loyalty to what is excellent, instead of success in satisfying desires.

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Werner Jaeger, who has written the classic history of the idea of paideia, [2] pointed out in a later book on Early Christianity and Greek Paideia that Clement not only uses literary forms and types of argument calculated to sway people formed by paideia but, beyond that, he explicitly praises paideia in such a way as to make it clear that his entire epistle is to be taken «as an act of Christian education.»

For critical discussions of Ogden's argument and the entire book, see Langdon B. Gilkey, «A Theology in Process,» Interpretation, XXI, 4 (October 1967), 447 - 459; Ray L. Hart, «Schubert Ogden on the Reality of God,» Religion In Life, XXXVI, 4 (Winter 1967), 506 - 515; Antony Flew, «Reflections on «The Reality of God»,» The Journal of Religion, 48, 2 (April 1968), 150 - 161: and Robert C. Neville, «Neoclassical Metaphysics and Christianity: A Critical Study of Ogden's Reality of God,» International Philosophical Quarterly, IX, 4 (December 1969), 605 - 624.

Yes, the argument hinges somewhat on to whom the book was addressed and whom is accused in 3:9 of robbing the entire nation (it does seem strange that the people would be accused of robbing themselves).