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Indlæser... The Wisdom of the World: The Human Experience of the Universe in Western Thoughtaf Rémi Brague
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Meh. An extremely wide ranging intellectual history, focusing on the relationship between 'world' and 'man.' If you're into laundry lists of quotes, followed by a one paragraph summary of those quotes that takes no notice whatsoever of the immense divergence between them, then this is for you. Brague is obviously well read, but this should have been an essay in some right-wing French weekly, rather than a book. The real flaw here, though, is the unbearable way he longs for a world in which the 'cosmos' has an ethical value. This is all the more ridiculous in that he's a famous Catholic intellectual: what does Christianity teach us if not that the world is not where we find ethical or moral meaning? Too bad. The cover's really nice. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
When the ancient Greeks looked up into the heavens, they saw not just sun and moon, stars and planets, but a complete, coherent universe, a model of the Good that could serve as a guide to a better life. How this view of the world came to be, and how we lost it (or turned away from it) on the way to becoming modern, make for a fascinating story, told in a highly accessible manner by Rémi Brague in this wide-ranging cultural history. Before the Greeks, people thought human action was required to maintain the order of the universe and so conducted rituals and sacrifices to renew and restore it. But beginning with the Hellenic Age, the universe came to be seen as existing quite apart from human action and possessing, therefore, a kind of wisdom that humanity did not. Wearing his remarkable erudition lightly, Brague traces the many ways this universal wisdom has been interpreted over the centuries, from the time of ancient Egypt to the modern era. Socratic and Muslim philosophers, Christian theologians and Jewish Kabbalists all believed that questions about the workings of the world and the meaning of life were closely intertwined and that an understanding of cosmology was crucial to making sense of human ethics. Exploring the fate of this concept in the modern day, Brague shows how modernity stripped the universe of its sacred and philosophical wisdom, transforming it into an ethically indifferent entity that no longer serves as a model for human morality. Encyclopedic and yet intimate, The Wisdom of the World offers the best sort of history: broad, learned, and completely compelling. Brague opens a window onto systems of thought radically different from our own. No library descriptions found. |
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I purchased this book for my library based on the recommendation of the catholic theologian Sr. Ilia Delio’s who uses Brague as a key source in her new book “Making All things New: Catholicity, Cosmology, Consciousness.” ( )