The Counter-RenaissanceThis stimulating reassessment of Renaissance thought produces evidence of an intellectual revolt in the sixteenth century, led by such men as Calvin, Luther, Montaigne, and Machiavelli, that ran counter to the prevailing concepts of Christian humanism and the sovereignty of reason. The author explores the influence of this challenging movement on contemporaries and on their successors, "those enigmatic and volatile individuals whom we term the Elizabethans." Writing with impeccable scholarship, leavened by a delightful literary style, Mr. Haydn has achieved a masterpiece of intellectual history. -4e de couv. |
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... man and man's distinctive good , is broken down and replaced by a really autonomous conception of the will , an unlimited free- dom of choice . Man , Cassirer believes Pico to have thought , really stands higher than " the angels and ...
... man and man's distinctive good , is broken down and replaced by a really autonomous conception of the will , an unlimited free- dom of choice . Man , Cassirer believes Pico to have thought , really stands higher than " the angels and ...
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... man's own efforts as a means of salvation , and centered their attacks upon the Chris- tian or classical humanists who exalted man's reason . Both repudiated any intermediary between God and man - but with differing emphases . The left ...
... man's own efforts as a means of salvation , and centered their attacks upon the Chris- tian or classical humanists who exalted man's reason . Both repudiated any intermediary between God and man - but with differing emphases . The left ...
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... man as essentially good . They did not look backward nostalgically , but this does not mean that they advocated the modern idea of " progress . " Rather , over and above man's ethical goal of virtue in private and public life , was his ...
... man as essentially good . They did not look backward nostalgically , but this does not mean that they advocated the modern idea of " progress . " Rather , over and above man's ethical goal of virtue in private and public life , was his ...
Contents
PROLOGUE The Enigmatic Elizabethans | 1 |
2 The CounterRenaissance and the Vanity of Learning | 76 |
The CounterRenaissance and the Repeal of Universal | 131 |
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