City of the Good : : Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right / / Michael Mayerfield Bell.
How we came to seek absolute good in religion and nature-and why that quest often leads us astrayPeople have long looked to nature and the divine as paths to the good. In this panoramic meditation on the harmonious life, Michael Mayerfeld Bell traces how these two paths came to be seen as separate f...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| 出版年: | 2018 |
| 语言: | English |
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| 实物描述: | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
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书本目录:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: On Losing Your Children in the Vatican
- Acknowledgments
- The Conundrum of the Absolute
- THE PAGAN
- Nature Before Nature
- The Natural Conscience
- Pagan Monotheism and the Two Evils
- THE BOURGEOIS
- Why Jesus Never Talked about Farming
- Great Departures
- Electrum Faiths
- THE GOOD
- Nonpolitical Politics
- Awesome Coolness
- The Jewel of Truth
- Notes
- References
- Index