Explores significance Confucius philosophy has for Western education systems today This title also explores the significance for western liberal democratic educational systems of the philosophy of Confucius Frank Flanagan explores the significance for western liberal democratic educational systems of the philosophy of Confucius He presents the central elements of Confucius approach to education and government through an account of the biography of Confucius an analysis of the Analects and an evaluation of the Confucian tradition through selected contemporary critical accounts He assesses the value that the Confucian tradition has for the educational systems of advanced industrialised countries in the 21st century How did writers understand the soul in late seventeenth century England New discoveries in medicine and anatomy led Restoration writers to question the substance of the soul and its motions in literature written during the neo Epicurean revival Writers throughout Stuart England found Lucretius both liberating and disturbing and engaged Epicureanism in ways that cohered with their own philosophy beliefs values or perceptions of the soul Lucretian Thought in Late Stuart England considers depictions of the soul in several representative literary texts from the period that engage with Lucretius s Epicurean philosophy in De rerum natura directly or through the writings of the most important natural philosopher anatomist and prolific medical writer to disseminate Epicurean atomism in Stuart England Walter Charleton 1619 1707 Laura Linker thoughtfully recasts the Restoration literary imagination and offers close readings ofthe understudied texts P M Gent s The Cimmerian Matron To which is added THE MYSTERIES And MIRACLES OF LOVE 1668 George Etherege s The Man of Mode 1676 and Lady Mary Chudleigh s Poems 1703

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