Shapes of philosophical history

Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1965
AuthorsFrank Edward Manuel
PublisherStanford University Press
CityStanford, Calif.
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Abstract

The wicked dance in circles : early Christians against the pagans -- Ascending Jacob's ladder : the way of St. Augustine or of the Abbot Joachim -- Ixion's wheel : the Renaissance ponders the vicissitudes -- Man is a crooked stick : Kant and the debate on moral destiny -- Taming the future : the French idea of perfectibility -- Leaps into free consciousness : resonances from the German academy -- An uneasy consensus : the twentieth-century prospect.