A History of Freedom of Thought [Hardcover]

Name : A History of Freedom of Thought [Hardcover]

Author : J.B. Bury

Book Format : Hardcover

Genre : Reference

ISBN : 9788121265171

Language : English

Pages : 201-300 Pages

Publish Year : 2022

Publisher : Gyan Publishing House

About The Book : Most people who live in open societies, especially in the West, take freedom of thought and expression for granted. Yet throughout most of history, independent thinking was discouraged and often persecuted. The battle for independence of mind continued for centuries. In Freedom of Thought, J. B. Bury provides a dramatic survey of intellectual history, clearly and eloquently describing the struggle for intellectual freedom from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century. He guides the reader from the flowering of rational inquiry in early Greece, through the suppression of free thought during much of the Middle Ages, to the rediscovery of classical philosophy in the Renaissance, and finally to the growth of rationalism beginning with the Age of Reason in the 17th century. Along the way, Bury explains the key events that contributed to the modern rational understanding of nature and offers concise sketches of the many important persons-philosophers, scientists, and writers- who championed independent thinking and laid the groundwork for contemporary Western culture. About The Author : John Bagnell Bury FBA (1861 – 1927) was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his Later Roman Empire. He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of

Country of Origin : India