Flesh in the Age of ReasonAllen Lane, 2003 - 573 страници The gloomy, anguished fears and concerns of the great English writers of the Civil War period (Milton, Bunyan et all) are in many ways completely baffling and alien to us and yet 150 years later with writers such as Byron we feel totally at home with their view of the world. How did this extraordinary change happen? How did we become modern? lifetime's work, offering an account of the writings of some of the most attractive figures ever to write in English. |
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... individual's mind was a unique storeroom of consciousness , a personal new world , ripe for discovery . Montaigne himself retired early from public life , not to commune with God but to scrutinize his own psyche . He might have appreci ...
... individual's mind was a unique storeroom of consciousness , a personal new world , ripe for discovery . Montaigne himself retired early from public life , not to commune with God but to scrutinize his own psyche . He might have appreci ...
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... individual counting as one unit , no more , no less . What a spectacular reversal of the old moral theology ! The Church had rejected selfishness ( greed , cupidity ) as sin . But such enlightened thinkers as David Hume now contended ...
... individual counting as one unit , no more , no less . What a spectacular reversal of the old moral theology ! The Church had rejected selfishness ( greed , cupidity ) as sin . But such enlightened thinkers as David Hume now contended ...
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... individual and avoid kowtowing to conventional beliefs and practices , as tradition- ally dictated by Church and State , and by the straitjacket of public opinion . Individual questing was paramount , permanent self- criticism crucial ...
... individual and avoid kowtowing to conventional beliefs and practices , as tradition- ally dictated by Church and State , and by the straitjacket of public opinion . Individual questing was paramount , permanent self- criticism crucial ...
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RELIGION AND THE SOUL | 28 |
MEDICINE AND THE BODY | 44 |
THE RATIONAL SELF | 62 |
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