The Nature of Man: Classical Selections on Great Issues, Symposium Readings

488 Pages·1982·49.601 MB·English

by  Faculty of Lynchburg College

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J^NCHBURG COLLEGE
SYMPOSIUM READINGS
CLASSICAL SELECTIONS ON
GREAT ISSUES
SERIES ONE
VOLUME
I
THE NATURE
MAN
OF
Cicero
Mirandola
Lucretius
Aquinas
Johnson
Wordsworth
Darwin
Freud
Emerson
Sartre
Laotse
Tillich
UNIVERSITY
PRESSOF
AMERICA
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SERIES ONE
SYMPOSIUM READINGS
Lynchburg College in Virginia
Compiled and Edited by the
following faculty members of Lynchburg College:
Kenneth E. Alrutz, A.M., University of Pennsylvania; Assistant
Professor of English
Virginia B. Berger, M.A., Harvard University; Associate Professor
of Music
Anne Marshall Bippus, Ed.D., University of Virginia; Associate
Professor of Education
James L. Campbell, Ph.D., University of Virginia; Associate Pro-
fessor of English
Robert L. Frey, Ph.D., University of Minnesota; Professor of
History
James A. Huston, Ph.D., New York University; Dean of the College,
Professor of History and International Relations
Shannon Mclntyre Jordan, Ph.D., University of Georgia; Instructor
in Philosophy
Jan G. Linn, D.Min., Christian Theological Seminary; Assistant
Professor, College Chaplain
Peggy S. Pittas, M.A., Dalhousie University; Associate Professor
of Psychology
Clifton W. Potter, Jr., Ph.D., University of Virginia; Professor
of History
Julius A. Sigler, Ph.D., University of Virginia; Professor of
Physics
Phillip H. Stump, Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles;
Assistant Professor of History
Thomas C. Tiller, Ph.D., Florida State University; Dean of Student
Affairs, Professor of Education
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Copyright © 1982 by
University Press ofAmerica, Inc.
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Printed in the United States of America
ISBN (Perfect): 0-8191-2463-X
ISBN (Cloth): 0-8191-2462-1
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Library ofCongress Catalog Card Number: 82-45158
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The following copyrighted materials have been used with
the permission of the copyright holders:
From The Wisdom of Laotse by Laotse. c.1948, Random
3
House, Inc.
From Existentialism and Human Emotions by Jean-Paul
3
Sartre, c.1957, Philosophical Library, Inc.
From The Courage To Be by Paul Tillich. c.1952,Yale
3
University Press.
From The Renaissance Philosophy of Man, "Oration on
the Dignity of Man" by Pico della Mirandola. c.1948,
University of Chicago Press.
From Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud. Trans, by A.A.
Brill, c.1918; c. renewed, 1946 by Gioia B. Bernheim
and Edmund R. Brill. Reprinted by permission.
With appreciation:
From The Complete Essays and Other Writings of Ralph
Waldo Emerson, "The Over-soul" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
c. 1940, Random House, Inc.
The authors acknowledge with appreciation the permis-
sions granted by these holders of the respective copy-
rights.
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