The Cave And The Light

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A magisterial account of how the two greatest thinkers of the ancient world, Plato and Aristotle, laid the foundations of Western culture and how their rivalry shaped the essential features of our culture down to the present day Plato came from a wealthy, connected Athenian family and lived a comfortable upper-class lifestyle until he met an.

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Full title :The Cave And The Light / Herman, Arthur.

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Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Random House Australia
Place of Publication:New York, US
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:624 pages : : 46 illustrations Throughout ; : 24 cm

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ISBN:9780553807301, 0553807307
oclc:ocn858965375
LC Classification:CB245
Dewey Decimal:909.09821

The School of Athens -- The first philosopher -- The soul of reason -- The mind of God -- The doctor's son -- Good citizen or philosopher ruler? -- The inheritors : philosophy in the Hellenistic age -- Knowledge is power -- Hole in the soul : Plato and Aristotle in Rome -- Dancing in the light : the birth of Neoplatonism -- Christ is come : Platonism and Christianity -- Toward the heavenly city -- Inquiring minds : Aristotle strikes back -- Celestial harmonies : Plato in the Middle Ages -- At the summit : Arabs, Aristotle, and Saint Thomas Aquinas -- The razor's edge -- Aristotle, Machiavelli, and the paradoxes of liberty -- The creative ascent : Plato in the high Renaissance -- Twilight of the scholastics : the Reformation and the doom of Aristotle -- Secrets of the heavens : Plato, Galileo, and the new science -- God, kings, and philosophers in the Age of Genius -- Aristotle in a periwig : the culture of the Enlightenment -- Starting over : Plato, Rousseau, and revolution -- "Feeling is all" : the triumph of the Romantics -- Victorian crossroads : Hegel, Marx, and Mill -- The scale of nature : Darwin, evolution, and Aristotle's God -- Unseen worlds : physics, relativity, and the…

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Ancient history (BC) Aristoteles Aristotle BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Civilization, Western -- Greek influenc… Einfluss Griechenland History Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Philosophie Philosophie ancienne Philosophy, Ancient Plato Westliche Welt