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Author : Ludwig Edelstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Philosophy, Ancient
ISBN : 1421435594
Author : Ludwig Edelstein
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781421435589
Originally published in 1967. Ludwig Edelstein characterizes the idea of "progress" in Greek and Roman times. He analyzes the ancients' belief in "a tendency inherent in nature or in man to pass through a regular sequence of stages of development in past, present, and future, the latter stages being—with perhaps occasional retardations or minor regressions—superior to the earlier." Edelstein's contemporaries asserted that the Greeks and Romans were entirely ignorant of a belief in progress in this sense of the term. In arguing against this dominant thesis, Edelstein draws from the conclusions of scholars of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and discusses ideas of Auguste Comte and Wilhelm Dilthey.
Author : Robert A. Nisbet
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412825481
Author : J. B. Bury
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788027303205
"We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case it is a matter of interest to examine the origins and trace the history of what is now, even should it ultimately prove to be no more than an idolum saeculi, the animating and controlling idea of western civilisation." Contents: Some Interpretations of Universal History: Bodin and Le Roy Utility the End of Knowledge: Bacon Cartesianism The Doctrine of Degeneration: the Ancients and Moderns The Progress of Knowledge: Fontenelle The General Progress of Man: Abbe De Saint-Pierre New Conceptions of History: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Turgot The Encyclopaedists and Economists Was Civilisation a Mistake? Rousseau, Chastellux The Year 2440 The French Revolution: Condorcet The Theory of Progress in England German Speculations on Progress Currents of Thought in France After the Revolution The Search for a Law of Progress: "Progress" in the French Revolutionary Movement (1830-1851) Material Progress: the Exhibition of 1851 Progress in the Light of Evolution
Author : J. B. Bury
Publisher : Aeterna Classics
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783964542212
We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case it is a matter of interest to examine the origins and trace the history of what is now, even should it ultimately prove to be no more than an idolum saeculi, the animating and controlling idea of western civilisation. For the earthly Progress of humanity is the general test to which social aims and theories are submitted as a matter of course.
Author : J. B. Bury
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:4057664635242
"The Idea of Progress: An Inguiry into Its Origin and Growth" by J. B. Bury. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Radoslav A. Tsanoff
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813186665
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 and aesthetic values, moral and religious experience. Civilization and Progress is marked by balanced and judicious treatment, very broad learning, and a lucid and forceful style. The author asks us to consider the alternatives we face and to reflect on the choices which men have made in the past, which confront us in the present world crisis, and on which our destiny hangs in the future. Seminal in scholarship and creativity, this work will interest those concerned with the Western intellectual tradition and with the condition of mankind.
Author : Leonid Zhmud
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110194326
This is the first comprehensive study of what remains of the writings of Aristotle's student Eudemus of Rhodes on the history of the exact sciences. These fragments are crucial to our understanding of the content, form, and goal of the Peripatetic historiography of science. The first part of the book presents an analysis of those trends in Presocratic, Sophistic and Platonic thought that contributed to the development of the history of science. The second part provides a detailed study of Eudemus' writings in their relationship with the scientific literature of his time, Aristotelian philosophy and the other historiographic genres practiced at the Lyceum: biography, medical and natural-philosophical doxography. Although Peripatetic historiography of science failed in establishing itself as a continuous genre, it greatly contributed both to the birth of the Arabic medieval historiography of science and to the development of this genre in Europe in the 16th-18th centuries.
Author : Daniel Špelda
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031605260
Author : Arnold Burgen,Peter McLaughlin,Jürgen Mittelstraß
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110820423
Author : Benjamin Isaac
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400849567
There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This groundbreaking book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "ethnic and cultural," but not racial, prejudice. It does so by comprehensively tracing the intellectual origins of racism back to classical antiquity. Benjamin Isaac's systematic analysis of ancient social prejudices and stereotypes reveals that some of those represent prototypes of racism--or proto-racism--which in turn inspired the early modern authors who developed the more familiar racist ideas. He considers the literature from classical Greece to late antiquity in a quest for the various forms of the discriminatory stereotypes and social hatred that have played such an important role in recent history and continue to do so in modern society. Magisterial in scope and scholarship, and engagingly written, The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity further suggests that an understanding of ancient attitudes toward other peoples sheds light not only on Greco-Roman imperialism and the ideology of enslavement (and the concomitant integration or non-integration) of foreigners in those societies, but also on the disintegration of the Roman Empire and on more recent imperialism as well. The first part considers general themes in the history of discrimination; the second provides a detailed analysis of proto-racism and prejudices toward particular groups of foreigners in the Greco-Roman world. The last chapter concerns Jews in the ancient world, thus placing anti-Semitism in a broader context.
Author : Eric Robertson Dodds
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Civilization, Greco-Roman
ISBN : 019814377X
These essays represent the full range of Dodds' literary and philosophical interests, and his ability to combine profound scholarship with the lucid humanity of a teacher convinced of the value of Greek studies to the modern world.
Author : Robert Nisbet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351515467
The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio and talk shows, the debate between those who are "progressivists" and those who are "declinists" is as spirited as it was in the late seventeenth century. In History of the Idea of Progress, Robert Nisbet traces the idea of progress from its origins in Greek, Roman, and medieval civilizations to modern times. It is a masterful frame of reference for understanding the present world. Nisbet asserts there are two fundamental building blocks necessary to Western doctrines of human advancement: the idea of growth, and the idea of necessity. He sees Christianity as a key element in both secular and spiritual evolution, for it conveys all the ingredients of the modern idea of progress: the advancement of the human race in time, a single time frame for all the peoples and epochs of the past and present, the conception of time as linear, and the envisagement of the future as having a Utopian end. In his new introduction, Nisbet shows why the idea of progress remains of critical importance to studies of social evolution and natural history. He provides a contemporary basis for many disciplines, including sociology, economics, philosophy, religion, politics, and science. History of the Idea of Progress continues to be a major resource for scholars in all these areas.
Author : Leslie Sklair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134685691
First published in 2002. Dr. Leslie Sklair is a Reader in Sociology at LSE. He took his BA (hons) in Sociology and Philosophy from Leeds University and his MA in Sociology from McMaster University in Canada. He received his PhD from LSE, and his thesis, Sociology of Progress, was published by Routledge in 1970.
Author : William Ralph Inge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Civilization
ISBN : UVA:X000511961
