Wisdom of the West: A Historical Survey of Western Philosophy in Its Social and Political SettingPopular survey of Western thought from the ancient Greeks to modern Existentialists, with many illustrations and diagrams in full color. |
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... social conditions . In the works of Dickens in England , and later Zola in France , these problems received an airing that helped to foster a greater awareness of the situation . One of the great remedies to all social ills was seen in ...
... social conditions . In the works of Dickens in England , and later Zola in France , these problems received an airing that helped to foster a greater awareness of the situation . One of the great remedies to all social ills was seen in ...
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... social revolution he felt imminent . Marx's thinking was moulded by three major influences . There is first of all his connection with the Philosophic Radicals . Like them , he is opposed to romanticism and pursues a social theory which ...
... social revolution he felt imminent . Marx's thinking was moulded by three major influences . There is first of all his connection with the Philosophic Radicals . Like them , he is opposed to romanticism and pursues a social theory which ...
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... social interests of its dominating group . Thus , one might hold that the revival of astronomy during the renaissance promoted the expansion of trade and enhanced the power of the rising middle class , though it may be remarked that one ...
... social interests of its dominating group . Thus , one might hold that the revival of astronomy during the renaissance promoted the expansion of trade and enhanced the power of the rising middle class , though it may be remarked that one ...
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