The Wisdom of the World
The Human Experience of the Universe in Western Thought
Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan
306 pages, 6 x 9
©
2003
Cloth $39.00
ISBN: 9780226070759
Published June 2003
Paper $20.00
ISBN: 9780226070773
Published November 2004
Preface
Translator's Note
Introduction
Part I: Setting the Stage
1. Prehistory: A Pre-Cosmic Wisdom
2. The Birth of the Cosmos in Greece
Part II: Four Models
3. Socrates' Revolution; Plato's Restoration
4. The Other Greece: The Atomists
5. Other than Greece: The Scriptures
6. The Other Other: Gnosticism
Part III: The Medieval Model
7. Marginal Models
8. The Standard Vision of the World
9. An Ethical Cosmos
10. A Cosmological Ethics
11. Abrahamic Excess
Part IV: The New World
12. The End of a World
13. An Impossible Imitation
14. The Lost World
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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