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Civilization and Progress /
Historical and systematic in its treatment, this work reviews the idea of progress in Western thought as it relates to civilization, in a more comprehensive survey than is to be found in previous writings on the subject. In the author's view, the history of civilization reveals an increasing ra...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Lexington] :
University Press of Kentucky,
[1971]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: A Historical Review of the Idea of Social Progress; ONE Alternatives and Approaches to the Idea of Progress in Classical Antiquity; TWO Divine Providence and Human Progress in the Christian Tradition; THREE The Upsurge of the Idea of Progress during the Renaissance and the Seventeenth Century; FOUR Philosophies of Progress in the Eighteenth Century; FIVE The Problem of Progress in the Nineteenth Century; SIX Contemporary Criticism; SEVEN Utopian Visions of the Perfect Society
- PART TWO: Social Confidence and the Despair of Progress: Alternative Judgments of CivilizationEIGHT The Evolution of the Family and the Emancipation of Women; NINE Household Economy and Bodily Well-Being; TEN Economic Values, Technology, and Human Progress; ELEVEN Social Order and Personal Freedom; TWELVE Intellectual and Aesthetic Values; THIRTEEN Moral and Religious Development; Epilogue; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z