Humanism: The Greek Ideal and its Survival

by Ruth Nanda Anshen

Volume 24 of World Perspectives
The Legacy & Its Distortions
Who Were the Greeks?
The Heroic Code
The Supernatural
The Tagic View
Man the Measure
The Cult of Hellenism
Channels to Europe
Humanist Revival
The Return: Machiavelli & Spinoza
Epilogue--Ruth Nanda Anshen

Genres: Philosophy

Library Binding

First published January 1, 1960

Reviews

[Erik Graff · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fair general introduction to classical Greece and Greek thought with a distorting overemphasis on Athenian culture. This is forgiveable as we know more about Athens than about any other polis, but to identify a brief period of Athenian history with something as grand as "the Greek ideal" is more mythology than history.

[Ian · Rating 4 out of 5]

man is the measure and the perspective of Greek derived Humanism.