Main Springs of Western Civilisation
Author | : Abdul Hameed Siddiqui |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Christianity and culture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Abdul Hameed Siddiqui |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Christianity and culture |
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Author | : Abdul H. Siddiqui |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1993-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781567441277 |
Author | : Abdul Hameed Siddiqui |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Civilization, Western |
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Author | : James A. Arieti |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2017-07-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1498534805 |
Springs of Western Civilization is a comparative exploration of the Hebraic and classical traditions that form our heritage. In examining these traditions before they united, James Arieti locates the catalyst for their bonding in two related circumstances: adoption by the biblical world of an eclectic mélange of Platonism, Aristotelianism, and Stoicism that, in the centuries on each side of the Common Era, produced consensus models both of God and of a warmhearted individual; and belief that the writings of Plato were literally true—a belief that arose from failing to understand his playful, metaphorical techniques of composition. Among the many effects of the mingling of biblical and philosophical values was a re-focusing of literature from the heroes of epic to the compassionate characters we recognize as Menschen.
Author | : Ellsworth Huntington |
Publisher | : New York : New American Library |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Evolution |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Niall Ferguson |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101548029 |
From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower “A dazzling history of Western ideas.” —The Economist “Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase.” —Wall Street Journal “[W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force.” —Boston Globe Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five centuries. How did the West overtake its Eastern rivals? And has the zenith of Western power now passed? Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, the West developed six powerful new concepts, or “killer applications”—competition, science, the rule of law, modern medicine, consumerism, and the work ethic—that the Rest lacked, allowing it to surge past all other competitors. Yet now, Ferguson shows how the Rest have downloaded the killer apps the West once monopolized, while the West has literally lost faith in itself. Chronicling the rise and fall of empires alongside clashes (and fusions) of civilizations, Civilization: The West and the Rest recasts world history with force and wit. Boldly argued and teeming with memorable characters, this is Ferguson at his very best.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Pakistani periodicals |
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Author | : Rémi Brague |
Publisher | : Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Western culture, which influenced the whole world, came from Europe. But its roots are not there. They are in Athens and Jerusalem. European culture takes its bearing from references that are not in Europe: Europe is eccentric. What makes the West unique? What is the driving force behind its culture? Remi Brague takes up these questions in Eccentric Culture. This is not another dictionary of European culture, nor a measure of the contributions of a particular individual, religion, or national tradition. The author's interest is especially, with regard to the transmission of that culture, to articulate the dynamic tension that has propelled Europe and more generally the West toward civilization. It is this mainspring of European culture, this founding principle, that Brague calls "Roman". Yet the author's intent is not to write a history of Europe, and less yet to defend the historical reality of the Roman Empire. Brague rather isolates and generalizes one aspect of that history or, one might say, cultural myth, of ancient Rome. The Roman attitude senses its own incompleteness and recognizes the call to borrow from what went before it. Historically, it has led the West to borrow from the great traditions of Jerusalem and Athens: primarily the Jewish and Christian tradition, on the one hand, and the classical Greek tradition on the other. Nowhere does the author find this Roman character so strongly present as in the Christian and particularly Catholic attitude toward the incarnation. At once an appreciation of the richness and diversity of the sources and their fruit, Eccentric Culture points as well to the fragility of their nourishing principle. As such, Brague finds in it notonly a means of understanding the past, but of projecting a future in (re)proposing to the West, and to Europe in particular, a model relationship of what is proper to it. An international bestseller (translated from the original French edition of Europe, La Voie Romaine), this work has been or is presently being translated into thirteen languages.
Author | : Keith M. Baker |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1987-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226069500 |
The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization sequence at the University of Chicago, were chosen by an outstanding group of scholars whose experience teaching that course spans almost four decades. Each volume includes rarely anthologized selections as well as standard, more familiar texts; a bibliography of recommended parallel readings; and introductions providing background for the selections. Beginning with Periclean Athens and concluding with twentieth-century Europe, these source materials enable teachers and students to explore a variety of critical approaches to important events and themes in Western history. Individual volumes provide essential background reading for courses covering specific eras and periods. The complete nine-volume series is ideal for general courses in history and Western civilization sequences.
Author | : S. M. Burke |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 1452910715 |