Selected Writings of Lord Acton: Essays in Religion, Politics, and Morality - Couverture souple

Acton, H B

 
9780865970519: Selected Writings of Lord Acton: Essays in Religion, Politics, and Morality
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0865970513 ISBN 13 : 9780865970519
Editeur : Liberty Fund Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Lord Acton's essays on liberal Catholicism demonstrate the breadth and brilliance of his thought and the strength of his advocacy as the liberal intellectual of the last century.

-- Professor S. W. Jackson, University of Victoria

Volume III focuses on the intersection of religion with moral and political issues. Also included are three important essays, "Human Sacrifice," "George Eliot's Life," and "Buckle's Philosophy of History." The last section is composed of nearly two hundred pages of excerpts from Acton's remarkable letters and unpublished notes.

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À propos de l'auteur

H B Acton (1908-1974) taught at Bedford College (London), the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Chicago; was editor of Philosophy, the influential journal of the British Royal Institute of Philosophy; and wrote, among other books, The Morals of Markets (1971; Liberty Fund, 1993) and The Philosophy of Language in Revolutionary France (1959).

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Éditeur
Liberty Fund Inc
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0865970513
ISBN 13 
9780865970519
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
716
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