
Enlightenment Volume 1
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Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Abbreviations Used in This Book
- Contents
- Overture: The Enlightenment in Its World
- 1. The Little Flock of Philosophes
- 2. Appearances and Realities
- Book One: The Appeal to Antiquity
- Chapter One: The Useful and Beloved Past
- 1. Hebrews and Hellenes
- 2. A Congenial Sense and Spirit
- 3. The Search for Paganism: From Identification to Identity
- Chapter Two: The First Enlightenment
- 1. Greece: From Myth to Reason
- 2. The Roman Enlightenment
- Chapter Three: The Climate of Criticism
- 1. Criticism as Philosophy
- 2. The Hospitable Pantheon
- 3. The Primacy of Moral Realism
- 4. Candide: The Epicurean as Stoic
- Book Two: The Tension with Christianity
- Chapter Four: The Retreat from Reason
- 1. The Adulteration of Antiquity
- 2. The Betrayal of Criticism
- 3. The Rehabilitation of Myth
- Chapter Five: The Era of Pagan Christianity
- 1. The Purification of the Sources
- 2. Ancients and Moderns: The Ancients
- 3. Ancients and Moderns: The Moderns
- Chapter Six: In Dubious Battle
- 1. The Christian Component
- 2. The Treason of the Clerks
- Chapter Seven: Beyond the Holy Circle
- 1. The Abuse of Learning
- 2. The Mission of Lucretius
- 3. David Hume: The Complete Modern Pagan
- Bibliographical Essay
- Overture: The Enlightenment in Its World
- Chapter One: The Useful and Beloved Past
- Chapter Two: The First Enlightenment
- Chapter Three: The Climate of Criticism
- Chapter Four: The Retreat from Reason
- Chapter Five: The Era of Pagan Christianity
- Chapter Six: In Dubious Battle
- Chapter Seven: Beyond the Holy Circle
- Bibliography of Works Frequently Cited
- A Note About the Author
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