Introduction to Realistic Philosophy

by John Daniel Wild

Preface
Historical introduction
-Realistic philosophy & its history
The perfection of human nature (ethics)
-The basic moral facts of life
-How men make themselves happy or miserable
-Irresponsibility & its causes
-Intellectual virtue & moral virtue
-The rational guidance of internal appetite (courage & temperance)
-The rational guidance of external appetite (generosity, greatness of soul & the virtues of friendliness)
-The rational guidance of action (justice) & the happy life
-Natural law & the structure of social life
-Basic natural groups
-Corrective groups & friendship
-Religion & the natural order of human culture
The philosophy of nature
-Change
-The causes of change
-Changing being & its modes
-The first cause of change
-The human psyche & its faculties
-Sensory cognition
-Rational cognition
-The appetites
Glossary of Technical Terms
Index

528 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1948