Brague, Remi, 1947-

The wisdom of the world : the human experience of the universe in Western thought / Remi Brague ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. - Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2003. - ix, 297 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-285) and index.

Prehistory : a pre-cosmic wisdom -- The birth of the cosmos in Greece -- Socrates' revolution, Plato's restoration -- The other Greece : the atomists -- Other than Greece : the Scriptures -- The other other : gnosticism -- Marginal models -- The standard vision of the world -- An ethical cosmos -- A cosmological ethics -- Abrahamic excess -- The end of a world -- An impossible imitation -- The lost world.

0226070751 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226070778 (pbk.)

2003001353

GBA3-Y1797

013006901 Uk


Cosmology--History.
Ethics--History.

BD494 / .B7313 2003