Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Contents xi
5. PART I: The Classical View of Man
6. I. The Pre-Socratic Quest 3
7. II. The Problem of Ethical Absolutes 16
8. III. Platonic Humanism 37
9. IV. Aristotelian Humanism 53
10. V. The Ethics of Stoicism 69
11. VI. The Decay of Humanism 84
12. VII. Retrospect 100
13. Part II: The Christian View of Man
14. VIII. The Religious Attitude 109
15. IX. The Christian Frame of Reference 120
16. X. The Winds of Doctrine 142
17. XI. Augustine and the Medieval View of Man 159
18. XII. Auguries of Change 187
19. Part III. The Renaissance View Of Man
20. Part III. The Renaissance View of Man 203
21. XIV. The Best of All Possible Worlds 223
22. XV. The Uses of Neoplatonism 241
23. XVI. Christian Humanism 258
24. XVII. The Naturalistic View of Man 275
25. XVIII. Sixteenth-Century Ethics and the Development of Neo-Stoicism 293
26. XIX. The Protestant View of Man 313
27. Epilogue 335
28. Bibliography 339
29. Index 361