The Age Of Adventure [RARE BOOKS]

A BOLD ERA OF PHILOSOPHY

In the Renaissance, a period of great discovery, phil- osophers devoted themselves to a study of life on earth rather than in heaven, hell, and purgatory, and brought forth radical ideas about man's freedom and ability to carve out uncharted paths in all fields. Covering one of the world's most adventurous eras of human thought and endeavor, this fascinating volume contains selec- tions from its basic philosophical writings in aesthet- ics, astronomy, literature, architecture, politics, and religion.

The Mentor Philosophers Series

The concepts of the great Western philosophers since the Middle Ages are now available in a distinguished series of inexpensive paperbound books, The Mentor Philosophers. They include The Age of Belief: The Medieval Philosophers, edited by Anne Fremantle; The Age of Adventure: The Renaissance Philoso- phers, edited by Giorgio de Santillana; The Age of Reason: The 17th Century Philosophers, edited by Stuart Hampshire; The Age of Enlightenment: The 18th Century Philosophers, edited by Isaiah Berlin; The Age of Ideology: The 19th Century Philosophers, edited by Henry D. Aiken; and The Age of Analysis: 20th Century Philosophers, edited by Morton White.

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