TY - BOOK AU - Brague,Remi TI - The wisdom of the world: the human experience of the universe in Western thought SN - 0226070751 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - BD494 .B7313 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - Chicago, Ill. PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Cosmology KW - History KW - Ethics N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi051/20 03001353.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/uchi051/200300135 3.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/uchi051/2003001353 .html ER -