The Wisdom of the World: The Human Experience of the Universe in Western Thought by Rémi Brague

The Wisdom of the World: The Human Experience of the Universe in Western Thought

Rémi Brague with Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translator)

306 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
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When the ancient Greeks looked up into the heavens, they saw not just sun and moon, stars and planets, but a complete, coherent universe, a model of the Good that could serve as a guide to a better life. How this view of the world came to be, and ...

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