Juan Luis VivesSpringer Science & Business Media, 6 de des. 2012 - 327 pàgines Humanism has constantly proclaimed the belief that the only way to improve man's life on earth is to make man himself wiser and better. Unfortunately, the voice of the humanists has always been challenged by the loud and cheap promises of scientists, by the inflammatory tirades of politicians, and by the apocalyptic visions of false prophets. Material greed, nonsensical chauvinism, racial prejudice, and religious antagonism have progressively defiled the inner beauty of man. Today's bankruptcy of man's dignity in the midst of an unparalleled material abundance calls for an urgent revival of humanistic ideals and values. This book was planned from its very start as a modest step in that direction. It is not my intention, however, to attempt, once again, a global interpretation of Humanism in general, or of Renaissance Humanism in particular. I have been dissuaded from such a purpose by the failure of contemporary scholars to agree on such basic issues as whether the Renaissance was a total break with or a continuation of medieval culture, whether it was basically a Christian or a pagan movement, whether it was the effect or the cause of the classical revival. Instead, then, of discussing the significance of sixteenth century humanism, this book concentrates upon the life and the thought of a single humanist. |
Continguts
The Legacy of Valencia 14921509 | 15 |
The Student of Montaigu 15091512 | 29 |
From Bruges to Louvain 15121523 | 49 |
Vives in England 15231528 125 76 | 103 |
In the Steps of Erasmus and Beyond 231 | 123 |
The Eclectic Criticism of Vives | 148 |
Vives on Education | 176 |
Individual and Social Ethics | 200 |
Range and Purpose of Human Knowledge | 228 |
The Process of Knowledge | 254 |
The Significance of Vives Thought | 275 |
Editions of Vives Main Works from 1520 to 1650 | 300 |
Chronological List of Vives Books | 307 |
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According to Vives Agricola alii Anima Antwerp Aragon Aristotelian Aristotle atque Averroes Bonilla Bruges Budé Catherine Catherine of Aragon chapter Christi Christian Cicero Concordia Cranevelt criticism dedicated dialectic Disciplinis England English enim Erasmian Erasmus ethical etiam Faculty Fevyn finally friends Greek Henry VIII Hispania homines human Humanist Ibid illa illis important intellectual introd J. L. Vives Juan Luis Vives knowledge Latin Lefèvre d'Etaples Letter from Vives Louvain man's Mayans medieval mihi Montaigu moral natural neque nihil omnia Oxford P. S. Allen Paris passions pedagogy philosophy quae quam Queen quid Quintilian quod Ramus ratione reason reform religious Renaissance Renaudet rerum rhetoric Saint scholasticism sense sive sixteenth century social soul Spain sunt Thomas thought treatise University University of Paris Valencia Vergara vero vita Vives never Vives wrote Vocht Wolsey writings