Biography george grant

Canadian philosopher (1918–1988)

George Parkin GrantOC FRSC (13 November 1918 – 27 September 1988) was a Canadian philosopher, university professor and social critic.

He is known for his Canadian nationalism, a political conservatism that affirms the values of community, equality and justice and his critical, philosophical analysis of the social and political effects of limitless technological progress.

As a practising Christian, Grant conceived of time as the moving image of an eternal order illuminated by love.

Many of his writings express a complex meditation on and dialogue with the great thinkers of Western civilization including the "ancients" such as Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine of Hippo as well as "moderns" such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Leo Strauss, James Doull, Simone Weil and Jacques Ellul.

Grant distinguished between civilizations of antiquity in which people believed that sacred stor