He discusses the theory of human nature held by the founders of the American Constitution, giving special attention to James Madison and the "Federalist Papers.
A documentary and analytical record, the book presents the classical background of primitivism and anti-primitivism in modern literature, historiography, and social and moral philosophy, and comprises chapters that center around particular ancient concepts and authors, including cynicism, stoicism, epicureanism, Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, and Cicero.
The Revolt Against Dualism, first published in 1930, belongs to a tradition in philosophical theorizing that Arthur O. Lovejoy called "descriptive epistemology." Lovejoy's principal aim in this book is to clarify the distinction between the quite separate phenomena of the knower and the known, something regularly obvious to common sense, if not always to intellectual understanding. This work is as much an argument about the ineluctable differe...
From later antiquity to the close of the 18th century, most educated men accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world. In this volume, Lovejoy copiously illustrates the influence of this conception, and of the ideas out of which it was compounded, upon the imagination and feelings as expressed in literature.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
In diesem aus einer 1933 an derHarvardUniversity gehaltenen Vorlesung hervorgegangenen Buch untersucht Lovejoy die Entstehung, Entfaltung und Auflösung eines philosophischen, genauer: eines kosmologischen Gedankens, der das westliche Denken mehr als zwei Jahrtausende lang entscheidend beeinflußt hat. Das Buch ist eine große kulturgeschichtliche Untersuchung über die gesamtkulturelle Wirksamkeit einer ursprünglich kosmologisch-metaphysischen Id...
