The image of man; a study of the idea of human dignity in classical antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.
A general history of philosophical, and especially metaphysical, theological, ethical and political thought in our Western society from the Ionians to the end of the Renaissance.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York,
Harper and Row,
1961.
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| Edition: | [1st Harper torchbook ed.]. |
| Series: | Harper torchbooks. Academy library ;
TB 1047. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: The classical view of man
- I. The pre-Socratic quest
- II. The problem of ethical absolutes
- III. Platonic humanism
- IV. Aristotelian humanism
- V. The ethics of stoicism
- VI. The decay of humanism
- VII. Retrospect
- Part II: The Christian view of man
- VIII. The religious attitude
- IX. The Christian frame of reference
- X. The winds of doctrine
- XI. Augustine and the Medieval view of man
- XII. Auguries of change
- Part III: The Renaissance view of man
- XIII. Vis inertiae in the Renaissance
- XIV. The best of all possible worlds
- XV. The uses of Neoplatonism
- XVI. Christian humanism
- XVII. The naturalistic view of man
- XVIII. Sixteenth-century ethics and the development of neo-stoicism
- XIX. The Protestant view of man
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index