The powers of prophecy: The cedar of Lebanon vision from the Mongol onslaught to the dawn of the enlightenment
The powers of prophecy: The cedar of Lebanon vision from the Mongol onslaught to the dawn of the enlightenment
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预言的力量:黎巴嫩雪松的愿景从蒙古人的进攻到启蒙运动的黎明
DOI:
10.1016/0191-6599(83)90062-1
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发表时间:
1986
影响因子:
0.3
通讯作者:
D. Koenigsberger
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作者:
D. Koenigsberger
The powers of prophecy: The cedar of Lebanon vision from the Mongol onslaught to the dawn of the enlightenment luxury; even vvhile he was denouncing the corrupting effects of health. he courted acceptance into bourgeois society and did not refuse its patronage. Paradoxically, perhaps. the single strongest conclusion which this new look at the voung Rousseau inspires (at least in this reader) is that for whatever reasons, Rousseau made himself the prototype of an increasingly common figure of modern histov: the alienated intellectual who has no compunctions about preaching u hat he does not practice. He could style himself a ‘citizen of Geneva’while wandering the world an exile. He could commend the virtues of parental education inEmi/e while committing five ofhis own offspring to a foundling home. He could provide an inspiring ideal of political community without committing himself to any effort of political reform or experiment. Aquinas may have lived a far duller life as a monk. but at least it was consistent uith the abstract, theological focus of his thought. Rousseau’s life, fascinating as it has been to so many generations. is often at such variance with his ideas that we are compelled to uonder whether it may not be best to treat them separately from their source.