[The Idea of Progress by J. B. Bury]@TWC D-Link book
The Idea of Progress

INTRODUCTION
15/65

We find the two views thus combined, for instance, in Plato's Laws, and in the earliest reasoned history of civilisation written by Dicaearchus, a pupil of Aristotle.

[Footnote: Aristotle's own view is not very clear.

He thinks that all arts, sciences, and institutions have been repeatedly, or rather an infinite number of times (word in Greek) discovered in the past and again lost.

Metaphysics, xi.

8 ad fin.; Politics, iv.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books