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The chief aim of this article is to credit the work of the great 20th-century historian and Christian philosopher Étienne Gilson with recognizing the essential connection between philosophy as an act of the human soul and the essential health of any civilization, especial Western civilization, which gave birth to philosophy as a cultural enterprise. It maintains that, as Gilson recognized, having...