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Vox populi : essays in the history of an idea.
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ISBN: 0801810086 9780801810084 Year: 1969 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins university press


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Vox Populi : Essays in the History of an Idea
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ISBN: 1421435039 1421435055 1421435047 Year: 2020 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Originally published in 1969. The proverb vox populi, vox Dei first appeared in a work by Alcuin (ca. 798), who wrote that "the people [] are to be led, not followed. [] Nor are those to be listened to who are accustomed to say, 'The voice of the people is the voice of God.'" Tracing the changing meaning of the saying through European history, George Boas finds that "the people" are not an easily identifiable group. For many centuries the butt of jokes and the substance of comic relief in serious drama, the people became in time an object of pity and, later, of aesthetic appeal. Popular opinion, despised in ancient Rome, was something sought, after the French Revolution. The first essay documents the use of the titular proverb through the eighteenth century. In the next six essays, Boas attempts to determine who the people were and how writers and philosophers have regarded them throughout history. He also examines the people as the creators of literature, art, and music, and as the subject of others' artistic representations. In a final essay, he discusses egalitarianism, which has given a voice to the common person. Animating Boas's account is his own belief in the importance of the individual's voice—as opposed to the voice of the masses, which is by no means necessarily that of God or reason.


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Rationalism in Greek Philosophy
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ISBN: 1421435691 1421435713 1421435705 Year: 2019 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Originally published in 1961. Greek philosophers were concerned with the distinction between appearance and reality, and all the differences in their philosophic systems were ultimately predicated on their different views of this distinction. The history of Greek rationalism is, then, a study of the changing basis of Greek philosophy. George Boas provides a historical account of rationalism in classical philosophy. He focuses on four central topics: the distinction between appearance and reality, the method used to establish the distinction, the appraisal of life made by the philosophers studied, and their ethical theories.


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The heaven of invention
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Year: 1962 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins Press

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Rationalism in Greek philosophy
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The cult of childhood
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ISBN: 9780882142180 0882142186 Year: 1990 Publisher: Dallas: Spring,

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Essays on primitivism and related ideas in the middle ages
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Year: 1948 Publisher: Baltimore (Md.) : Johns Hopkins press,

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The challenge of science
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Year: 1965 Publisher: Seattle (Wash.) : University of Washington press,

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The cult of childhood
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Year: 1966 Publisher: London : Warburgh Institute : University of London,

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