The Dignity of Man : Studies in the Persistence of an Idea / Herschel C. Baker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baker, Herschel C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homme.

Human beings.

Philosophie.

Local Subjects:

Human beings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2013

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "The Dignity of Man".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Acknowledgments

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

Part III. The Renaissance View of Man

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-674-73493-9

OCLC:

1013948260