Civilization and Progress / [by] Radoslav A. Tsanoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tsanoff, Radoslav A. (Radoslav Andrea), 1887-1976.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

Progress.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1971.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Historical and systematic in its treatment, this work reviews the idea of progress in Western thought as it relates to civilization, in a more comprehensive survey than is to be found in previous writings on the subject. In the author's view, the history of civilization reveals an increasing range of human capacity, both for good and for evil, depending upon men's choice between contending values.From this standpoint, the work proceeds to the exploration of such fields of social activity as the evolution of the family, the emancipation of women, economic conditions and technology, intellectual

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: A Historical Review of the Idea of Social Progress; ONE Alternatives and Approaches to the Idea of Progress in Classical Antiquity; TWO Divine Providence and Human Progress in the Christian Tradition; THREE The Upsurge of the Idea of Progress during the Renaissance and the Seventeenth Century; FOUR Philosophies of Progress in the Eighteenth Century; FIVE The Problem of Progress in the Nineteenth Century; SIX Contemporary Criticism; SEVEN Utopian Visions of the Perfect Society

PART TWO: Social Confidence and the Despair of Progress: Alternative Judgments of CivilizationEIGHT The Evolution of the Family and the Emancipation of Women; NINE Household Economy and Bodily Well-Being; TEN Economic Values, Technology, and Human Progress; ELEVEN Social Order and Personal Freedom; TWELVE Intellectual and Aesthetic Values; THIRTEEN Moral and Religious Development; Epilogue; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813186665

0813186668

9780813164779

081316477X

OCLC:

600982681