Corrupting the youth : a history of philosophy in Australia / James Franklin.

Paddington, N.S.W. : Macleay Press, 2003.

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Philosophy -- History.

Philosophy -- Australia.

Part one: John Anderson's Sydney and alternatives

1. Anderson and the state

2. Anderson and the youth

3. Gross moral turpitude: the Orr case

4. The Catholic scholastics

5. The Gough-Kinsella affair

6. Idealism and empire

7. The Melbourne spectrum

Part two: The wider sphere of philosophy

8. The Push and critical drinkers

9. Mind, matter and medicine gone mad

10. The inspiration of youth and the pursuit of virtue

Part three: Special interests

11. The Sydney disturbances

12. Science, antiscience and Australian realism

13. I love a sunburnt environment

14. This space intentionally left blank: Francofeminism

15. The return of the repressed

16. Last rights: applied ethics

Epilogue: Stove on why have philosophers?

Includes bibliography and index.

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465 p.: ill.