Discusses Western civilization with a focus on the bold, radical philosophies of the recorded great thinkers of their ti
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English Pages 340 Year 2008
Table of contents :
Content: Ancient Greece : love of wisdom and beauty --
Rome : an empire of tradition and patriarchy --
Israel : how God changed the world --
The early church : charity and tolerance are born --
The high Middle Ages : the bright ages --
The Renaissance : it's not what you think --
The Enlightenment : liberty and tyranny --
The nineteenth century : man is a god
man is a beast --
The twentieth century : a century of blood.