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The wisdom of the world : the human experience of the universe in Western thought / Rémi Brague ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.

Van Pelt Library BD494 .B7313 2003
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Brague, Rémi, 1947-
Standardized Title:
Sagesse du monde. English
Language:
English
French
Subjects (All):
Cosmology--History.
Cosmology.
History.
Ethics--History.
Ethics.
Physical Description:
ix, 297 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Language Note:
Translated from the French.
Contents:
Prehistory : a pre-cosmic wisdom
The birth of the cosmos in Greece
Socrates' revolution, Plato's restoration
The other Greece : the atomists
Other than Greece : the Scriptures
The other other : gnosticism
Marginal models
The standard vision of the world
An ethical cosmos
A cosmological ethics
Abrahamic excess
The end of a world
An impossible imitation
The lost world.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-285) and index.
ISBN:
0226070751
OCLC:
51544034

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