Renaissance Thinkers: Erasmus, Bacon, More, and Montaigne (Past Masters) - Softcover

McConica, James; Quinton, Anthony; Kenny, Anthony; Burke, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192831062 ISBN 13: 9780192831064

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Renaissance Thinkers offers concise and readable introductions to four of the most important philosophical writers of the European Renaissance. All were well-schooled in the literary classics of ancient Greece and Rome, and all assumed that the insights of pagan antiquity were still relevant to the Christian era in which they lived. Erasmus and More believed that the highest human good lay in a union of classical wisdom and Christian teaching; Montaigne displayed a more skeptical temper, while Bacon sketched out a scientific program which was intended to supersede the authority of classical antiquity and literary humanism altogether. This is an authoritative collection of introductions to the achievements and thought of leading intellectual figures of the past whose ideas still influence the way we think today.

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About the Author:

About the Authors:
James McConica is a Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Anthony Quinton was President of Trinity College, Oxford from 1978 to 1987. Sir Anthony Kenny is President of the British Academy. Peter Burke is reader in Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0192831062
• ISBN 13: 9780192831064
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 414