Springs of Western Civilization (eBook)

A Comparative Study of Hebrew and Classical Cultures

James A. Arieti (Autor)

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2017
338 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3480-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores how the Hebraic and classical traditions forming our Western heritage combined from about 300 BCE to 300 CE. James Arieti investigates the principal causes of the merger in the common model of God that developed in the Greek philosophical schools, along with its ethical implications, and the shared portrayal in biblical, rabbinic, and postclassical literature of the compassionate warm character that we recognize as a mentsh.

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Springs of Western Civilization is a comparative exploration of the Hebraic and classical traditions that form our heritage. In examining these traditions before they united, James Arieti locates the catalyst for their bonding in two related circumstances: adoption by the biblical world of an eclectic melange of Platonism, Aristotelianism, and Stoicism that, in the centuries on each side of the Common Era, produced consensus models both of God and of a warmhearted individual; and belief that the writings of Plato were literally truea belief that arose from failing to understand his playful, metaphorical techniques of composition. Among the many effects of the mingling of biblical and philosophical values was a re-focusing of literature from the heroes of epic to the compassionate characters we recognize as Menschen.

Autor

James A. Arieti is Graves H. Thompson Professor of Classics at Hampden-Sydney College.

Inhalt

IntroductionChapter One: NatureChapter Two: Human PhenomenaChapter 3: Family MattersChapter 4: Political MattersChapter 5: Religious MattersChapter 6: Conclusions

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2017
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: ancient law • Aristotle • Biblical Studies • Classical literature • Comparative Religion • davar • etymology • Greek Culture • Hebrew Bible • Hebrew culture • Influence • Labor • Logos • Mystery • NATURAL • Philosophy of Religion • Plato • Religious Studies • Supernatural • Talmud • wisdom
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3480-5 / 1498534805
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3480-2 / 9781498534802