Author: J. B. Bury
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2019-02-06
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 8027303206
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case it is a matter of interest to examine the origins and trace the history of what is now, even should it ultimately prove to be no more than an idolum saeculi, the animating and controlling idea of western civilisation." Contents: Some Interpretations of Universal History: Bodin and Le Roy Utility the End of Knowledge: Bacon Cartesianism The Doctrine of Degeneration: the Ancients and Moderns The Progress of Knowledge: Fontenelle The General Progress of Man: Abbe De Saint-Pierre New Conceptions of History: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Turgot The Encyclopaedists and Economists Was Civilisation a Mistake? Rousseau, Chastellux The Year 2440 The French Revolution: Condorcet The Theory of Progress in England German Speculations on Progress Currents of Thought in France After the Revolution The Search for a Law of Progress: "Progress" in the French Revolutionary Movement (1830-1851) Material Progress: the Exhibition of 1851 Progress in the Light of Evolution
Author: J.B. Bury
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2019-09-25
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 3734087376
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Author: John B. Bury
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780313233746
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Emphasizing the necessity of adhering with rigid exactness to historical facts, the author presents a scheme of ideas upon which to thread the facts of human development which extends to cover the whole range of civilization in its movement through time.
Author: J. B. Bury
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-01-08
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 3368332791
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Author: John Bagnell Bury
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 1955-01-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1465525823
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Practically unknown before the Reformation, the idea of progress has since become one of the central concepts of western civilization. Professor Bury analyzes its evolution in the thought of Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, to its flowering in all branches of science, religion, philosophy, industry, art, and literature during and following the 16th century. Emphasizing the necessity of adhering with rigid exactness to historical facts, the author presents a scheme of ideas upon which to thread the facts of human development which extends to cover the whole range of civilization in its movement through time. In this classic, oft cited volume, Bury writes a form of intellectual history, tracing the development of the idea of progress from the Greeks through its relationship to the idea of evolution"--Amazon.
Author: Charles Van Doren
Publisher: New York : F. A. Praeger
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13:
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