The Image of Man: A Study of the Idea of Human Dignity in Classical Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the RenaissanceA general history of philosophical, and especially metaphysical, theological, ethical and political thought in our Western society from the Ionians to the end of the Renaissance. |
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THE PRESOCRATIC QUEST | 3 |
SOCRATES AND | 16 |
PLATONIC HUMANISM | 37 |
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