The Idea of Progress in Classical Antiquity - Couverture rigide

Edelstein, Ludwig

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801801850 ISBN 13 : 9780801801853

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ekaterina N. Lomperis is a PhD candidate in theology at the University of Chicago and a junior fellow at the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1967
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801801850
• ISBN 13: 9780801801853
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
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