Beschreibung:

396 p. Softcover.

Bemerkung:

Slightly discolored. - CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Perfection and Perfectibility -- From Olympus to the Form of the Good -- The Godlike Man: Aristotle to Plotinus -- Christianity Rejects Perfection: the Elements -- Pelagius and his Critics -- Perfectibility within Christianity: the Ascetico-Mystical Tradition -- Perfectibility within Christianity: Protestant and Heretical -- Perfecting by Social Action: the Presuppositions -- Governmentalists, Anarchists and Geneticists -- The Perfecting of Man by Scientific Progress -- Progress by Natural Development: from Joachim to Marx -- Progress by Natural Development: from Darwin to Teilhard -- Perfection Renounced: the Dystopians -- Mysticism and Humanity -- The New Mysticism: Paradise Now References -- Subject Index Name Index