Meaning in History The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History

Name: Meaning in History The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History
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ISBN: 9780226495552

ISBN-10: 0226495558

ISBN-13: 9780226495552

Edition: 1957

Authors: Karl Lowith

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Modern man sees with one eye of faith and one eye of reason. Consequently, his view of history is confused. For centuries, the history of the Western world has been viewed from the Christian or classical standpoint--from a deep faith in the Kingdom of God or a belief in recurrent and eternal life-cycles. The modern mind, however, is neither Christian nor pagan--and its interpretations of history are Christian in derivation and anti-Christian in result. To develop this theory, Karl Löwith--beginning with the more accessible philosophies of history in the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries and working back to the Bible--analyzes the writings of outstanding historians both in antiquity and in…

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List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1957
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/1957
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 266
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.91" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction



Burckhardt



Marx



Hegel



Progress versus Providence



Proudhon



Conte



Condorcet and Turgot



Voltaire



Vico



Boussuet



Joachim



Augustine



Orosius



The Biblical View of History


Conclusion


Epilogue


Appendix



Modern Transfigurations of Joachism



Nietzsche's Revival of the Doctrine of Eternal Recurrence


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index