Pagans and Philosophers |
Subtitle:
The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz
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Book Category:
Philosophy > Religious
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Author:
Marenbon, John
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Binding:
Cloth
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ISBN 10:
0691142556
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ISBN 13:
9780691142555
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Price:
$35.00
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Publication Year:
2015
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Publisher Info
Timothy Wilkins,
Princeton University Press,41 William Street,
Princeton ,
New Jersey - 08540,USA
Web: press.princeton.edu Inquiry
Book Description
Pagans and Philosophers explores how writers--philosophers and theologians, but also poets such as Dante, Chaucer, and Langland, and travelers such as Las Casas and Ricci--tackled the Problem of Paganism. Augustine and Boethius set its terms, while Peter Abelard and John of Salisbury were important early advocates of pagan wisdom and virtue
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