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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... later philosophers . The Neoplatonist Plotinus , for instance , described a continuum which extended down from Divine Intellect to brute matter , via angels , man , lower animals , the vegetable kingdom and inanimate matter . As we ...
... later philosophers . The Neoplatonist Plotinus , for instance , described a continuum which extended down from Divine Intellect to brute matter , via angels , man , lower animals , the vegetable kingdom and inanimate matter . As we ...
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... later he published the equally sombre The Vanity of Human Wishes , an imitation of the tenth satire of Juvenal , expressive of his own dark vision of human folly . A year later , he began to bring out the Rambler , a magazine in the ...
... later he published the equally sombre The Vanity of Human Wishes , an imitation of the tenth satire of Juvenal , expressive of his own dark vision of human folly . A year later , he began to bring out the Rambler , a magazine in the ...
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... later Beddoes died , worn out at the age of 48 , sad and despondent , ' as one who has scattered abroad the avena fatua [ wild oats ] of knowledge , from which neither branch nor blossom nor fruit has resulted ' . It is sobering to ...
... later Beddoes died , worn out at the age of 48 , sad and despondent , ' as one who has scattered abroad the avena fatua [ wild oats ] of knowledge , from which neither branch nor blossom nor fruit has resulted ' . It is sobering to ...
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RELIGION AND THE SOUL | 28 |
MEDICINE AND THE BODY | 44 |
THE RATIONAL SELF | 62 |
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