An edition of The wisdom of the world (2003)

The wisdom of the world

the human experience of the universe in Western thought

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An edition of The wisdom of the world (2003)

The wisdom of the world

the human experience of the universe in Western thought

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Language
English
Pages
297

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Table of 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

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-285) and index

Published in
Chicago

Classifications

Library of Congress
BD494 .B7313 2003, BD494.B7313 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 297 p. ;
Number of pages
297

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17087623M
ISBN 10
0226070751
LCCN
2003001353
OCLC/WorldCat
51544034
LibraryThing
976178
Goodreads
3037318

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL769586W

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