Renaissance Thinkers offers concise and readable introductions to four of the most important philosophical writers of the European Renaissance. All were well-schooled in the literary classics of ancient Greece and Rome, and all assumed that the insights of pagan antiquity were still relevant to the Christian era in which they lived. Erasmus and More believed that the highest human good lay in a union of classical wisdom and Christian teaching; Montaigne displayed a more skeptical temper, while Bacon sketched out a scientific program which was intended to supersede the authority of classical antiquity and literary humanism altogether. This is an authoritative collection of introductions to the achievements and thought of leading intellectual figures of the past whose ideas still influence the way we think today.

Renaissance Thinkers: Erasmus, Bacon, More, and Montaigne (Past Masters)

Kenny, Anthony

BURKE, PETER

Quinton, Anthony

McConica, James

Arts & Photography

Oxford University Press

Francis Bacon (Past masters)

Francis Bacon (Past Masters)

History

Europe

This is a collection of writings by the late Lord Quinton, one of the wittiest and most versatile philosophers of his generation. The first part ranges over the last four hundred years of intellectual history, discussing such thinkers as Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Coleridge, Kant, Hegel, T. H. Green, Dewey, Quine, and Ayer. The subject of the second part of the volume is, broadly speaking, value in human society: Quinton discusses freedom, morality, politics, language, culture, and the relation between humans and animals. Together these writings demonstrate the enormous breadth of their author's learning, and the clarity, elegance, and urbanity of his style. Seven of the pieces are previously unpublished.

Of Men and Manners: Essays Historical and Philosophical

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

A concise study of utilitarianism.

Utilitarian Ethics (New Studies in Ethics)

Literature & Fiction

Classics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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The nature of things

Routledge& Kegan Paul

The Nature of Things

Routledge

Utilitarian Ethics

Bloomsbury Academic

Francis Bacon

Oxford Univ Pr (Trade)

Open Court Pub. Co

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