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... Renaissance . THE GROUND MOTIVE OF THE RENAISSANCE Every attempt to describe the ground motive of the Renaissance within a few words is almost bound to fail . What a remarkable time it must have been when - in 1486 - Giovanni Pico della ...
... Renaissance . THE GROUND MOTIVE OF THE RENAISSANCE Every attempt to describe the ground motive of the Renaissance within a few words is almost bound to fail . What a remarkable time it must have been when - in 1486 - Giovanni Pico della ...
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... Renaissance primarily as a movement of emancipation of the new bourgeoi- sie , in search of a new manner and style ... Renaissance he opens the chapter on the discovery of man with the following quotation from Michelet's Histoire de ...
... Renaissance primarily as a movement of emancipation of the new bourgeoi- sie , in search of a new manner and style ... Renaissance he opens the chapter on the discovery of man with the following quotation from Michelet's Histoire de ...
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... Renaissance . It is dialectical because it tries to unite into one conception the pole of completely autonomous personal freedom and the contrary pole of absolute and rational control over nature . In essence these poles contradict each ...
... Renaissance . It is dialectical because it tries to unite into one conception the pole of completely autonomous personal freedom and the contrary pole of absolute and rational control over nature . In essence these poles contradict each ...
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THE RAZING OF | 1 |
THE BARRIER OF CHURCH AND HEAVEN | 10 |
EVALUATIVE INTERMEZZO | 33 |
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Adam Smith adjusted barrier become capitalism capitalist century Christian Club of Rome competition consciousness consumer consumption context continual counterculture deism Dennis Gabor direction disclosure of society domination economic growth economic progress economic system Egbert Schuurman energy Enlightenment enterprise entire environment ethics existing faith in progress forces freedom future Gabor Galbraith goal gold standard happiness Herman Dooyeweerd humanist Ibid Idea of Progress ideal increase industrial revolution inflation influence Karl Löwith Keynes labor laissez-faire limits lives Marcuse market economy Marx means medieval ment modern money supply nations natural law nomic norms paradise Peter Gay philosopher political possible present problems production prog question raw materials relationship Renaissance respect responsibility result role scientific sector social order social structures solution technical tion tunnel society unemployment utilitarian wages western culture western society William Irwin Thompson York