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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... moral obligation . ... It is God himself Who turns our will towards Himself , and in consequence makes it good ; in freely turning ourselves away we can but make it bad.2 + • True Christian liberty , then , lies not in the freedom to do ...
... moral obligation . ... It is God himself Who turns our will towards Himself , and in consequence makes it good ; in freely turning ourselves away we can but make it bad.2 + • True Christian liberty , then , lies not in the freedom to do ...
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... moral autonomy which allows every man to work out his own life - pattern according to the law of his own singular nature . " Complete moral autonomy enters the picture with Pico's concept of man and his dignity . Yet this " upward ...
... moral autonomy which allows every man to work out his own life - pattern according to the law of his own singular nature . " Complete moral autonomy enters the picture with Pico's concept of man and his dignity . Yet this " upward ...
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... moral goodness is the only good , as the Stoics believe , or whether , as your Peripatetics think , moral goodness is in so far the highest good that everything else gathered together into the opposing scale would have scarcely the ...
... moral goodness is the only good , as the Stoics believe , or whether , as your Peripatetics think , moral goodness is in so far the highest good that everything else gathered together into the opposing scale would have scarcely the ...
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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