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Item Details
| Title:
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MAN'S ASCENT TO REASON
THE SECULARIZATION OF WESTERN CULTURE |
| By: |
Gerhard Falk |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£94.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0773469567 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780773469563 |
| Publisher: |
THE EDWIN MELLEN PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
30 September, 2002 |
| Pages: |
328 |
| Description: |
This work traces the history of secular thought in Western civilization from the pre-Socratic Greeks to early Christianity, the Reformation, the Middle Ages, the Age of Reason, the French enlightenment of the 18th century, through to the current period. |
| Synopsis: |
The slow ascent of Man to a life of reason is best portrayed by examining the long history of secularization which religion has provoked in every age. It is customary to assume that secular attitudes are a recent development and that religion ruled unchallenged in "the past". This is not so. Dr. Falk's book serves to show that even the most ancient writings now extant indicate that religion always had its opponents and that opposition to religion, at least in Western Civilization, was particularly strong in ancient Greece among the pre-Socratic "lovers of wisdom". |
| Illustrations: |
bibliography, index |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Edwin Mellen Press Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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