Название: The Greeks Who Made Us Who We Are: Eighteen Ancient Philosophers, Scientists, Poets and Others
Автор: M.A. Soupios
Издательство: McFarland & Company
ISBN: 0786472731
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 248
Размер: 1,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Hellenic contributions to Western Civilization are acknowledged by all, but the details of their endowment are under-appreciated. This volume seeks to disclose two distinctive features of Western culture uniquely attributable to the ancient Greeks: A human-centered worldview that elevated humans to the threshold of divinity and a philosophical temperament which for the first time in history proffered the unbridled operation of the human mind as a kind of cultural imperative.