Ancient Reflections on Vanity, Contempt of the World, Misery, and Dignity of Man (Studies in Classical Literature and Culture)

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In his book Domanski analyzes issues related to the themes of "contempt of the world" and "misery" and "human dignity" in philosophical literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He focuses on medieval and Renaissance texts, but also draws on ancient Christian literature, including Augustine. This book reflects on the foundations of both "contempt of the world" and the human "misery" and "dignity." Drawing on Augustinian categories, Domanski reconstructs their intellectual foundations - not because Augustine directly inspired the medieval and later thinkers who explored these themes but because his Christian and Neoplatonic anthropology offers an unparalleled ontological and axiological framework for understanding them. While medieval authors often found their immediate models among other Christian writers or ancient philosophers and poets, it is the Augustinian hierarchy of values that allows their reflections on human misery and dignity to acquire full philosophical coherence. Through this lens, Domanski illuminates the spiritual and metaphysical architecture behind some of Western thought's most persistent moral ideas.

Preliminary Remarks - Part I: Remarks on the Medieval and Renaissance Contempt of the World and Human Misery - 1. Contempt of the World - 2. Lotario's Treatise De contemptu mundi sive de miseria condicionis humanae - 3. Poggio Bracciolini's De miseria condicionis humanae and the Humanistic Context of Contempt of the World - 4. De contemptu mundi by Erasmus of Rotterdam and Christian Humanism - Part II: Reflection on Human Dignity: From Antiquity to Renaissance - 1. Bibliographical and Lexical Remarks - 2. Classical Antiquity - 3. The Bible - 4. Christian Antiquity - 5. The Middle Ages - 6. Italian Quattrocento - 7. The Erasmian Dignity of the Tripartite Human Being - 8. Sixteenth-Century French Humanism - Final Remarks - Index

Juliusz Domanski is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and at the Institute of Classical Philology of the University of Warsaw. Well-known in Polish and international humanities, Domanski focuses on the classics and the European Renaissance.

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