Renaissance Thinkers: Erasmus, Bacon, More, and Montaigne

by James McConica, Anthony Quinton, Anthony Kenny

Book Overview

Renaissance Thinkers offers concise and readable introductions to four of the most important philosophical writers of the European Renaissance. All were well-schooled in the literary classics of ancient Greece and Rome, and all assumed that the insights of pagan antiquity were still relevant to the Christian era in which they lived. Erasmus and More believed that the highest human good lay in a union of classical wisdom and Christian teaching; Montaigne...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192831062
• ISBN13: 9780192831064
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.1" x 7.7"