The Great ideas today, 1973 / [electronic resource] Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.

Includes bibliographies.

I. The hero and the heroic ideal : a symposium. The hero and the heroic ideal in Great books of the western world. We must have heroes / S.L.A. Marshall -- No more heroes / Ron Dorfman -- Heroism and fortitude / Josef Pieper -- Heroes in black and white / Joy Gould Boyum -- The hero as a world figure / Sidney Hook -- Heroes for an ordinary world / Chaim Potok. II. The widening gyre : philosophy in the twentieth century / W.T. Jones -- The anatomy of justice in taxation / Walter J. Blum and Harry Kalven, Jr. -- A fresh look at Copernicus / Owen Gingerich. IV. The idea of freedom, part two / Charles Van Doren.