The Idea of Progress in Classical Antiquity

• Tác giả: Ludwig Edelstein
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1421435596
• ISBN-10: book.68464
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 901 Philosophy and theory of history
• Thông tin xuất bản: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (248 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 270354
• Chủ đề: 1. Ancient philosophy; 2. Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

Tóm tắt

Originally published in 1967. Ludwig Edelstein characterizes the idea of "progress" in Greek and Roman times. He analyzes the ancients' belief in "a tendency inherent in nature or in man to pass through a regular sequence of stages of development in past, present, and future, the latter stages being-with perhaps occasional retardations or minor regressions-superior to the earlier." Edelstein's contemporaries asserted that the Greeks and Romans were entirely ignorant of a belief in progress in this sense of the term. In arguing against this dominant thesis, Edelstein draws from the conclusions of scholars of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and discusses ideas of Auguste Comte and Wilhelm Dilthey.