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Aphorisms and apothegms. --- Auernheimer, Raoul, --- Schnitzler, Arthur, --- Ana --- Apothegms --- Gnomes (Maxims) --- Sayings --- Epigrams --- Maxims --- Proverbs --- Quotations
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Originally published in 1969. The proverb vox populi, vox Dei first appeared in a work by Alcuin (ca. 798), who wrote that "the people [] are to be led, not followed. [] Nor are those to be listened to who are accustomed to say, 'The voice of the people is the voice of God.'" Tracing the changing meaning of the saying through European history, George Boas finds that "the people" are not an easily identifiable group. For many centuries the butt of jokes and the substance of comic relief in serious drama, the people became in time an object of pity and, later, of aesthetic appeal. Popular opinion, despised in ancient Rome, was something sought, after the French Revolution. The first essay documents the use of the titular proverb through the eighteenth century. In the next six essays, Boas attempts to determine who the people were and how writers and philosophers have regarded them throughout history. He also examines the people as the creators of literature, art, and music, and as the subject of others' artistic representations. In a final essay, he discusses egalitarianism, which has given a voice to the common person. Animating Boas's account is his own belief in the importance of the individual's voice—as opposed to the voice of the masses, which is by no means necessarily that of God or reason.
Arts. --- Social classes. --- God --- Proverbs. --- Public opinion. --- Will. --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Adages --- Ana --- Gnomes (Maxims) --- Proverbial sayings --- Proverbs --- Sayings --- Folk literature --- Quotations --- Terms and phrases --- Aphorisms and apothegms --- Epigrams --- Maxims --- Will --- Divine commands (Ethics) --- Class distinction --- Classes, Social --- Rank --- Caste --- Estates (Social orders) --- Social status --- Class consciousness --- Classism --- Social stratification --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Arts, Primitive --- History of philosophy, philosophical traditions
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Wisdom on the Move explores the complexity and flexibility of wisdom traditions in Late Antiquity and beyond. This book studies how sayings, maxims and expressions of spiritual insight travelled across linguistic and cultural borders, between different religions and milieus, and how this multicultural process reshaped these sayings and anecdotes. Wisdom on the Move takes the reader on a journey through late antique religious traditions, from manuscript fragments and folios via the monastic cradle of Egypt, across linguistic and cultural barriers, through Jewish and Biblical wisdom, monastic sayings, and Muslim interpretations. Particular attention is paid to the monastic Apophthegmata Patrum , arguably the most important genre of wisdom literature in the early Christian world.
82-84 --- 82-84 Spreuken. Citaten --- Spreuken. Citaten --- 82-84 Maxims. Gnomic utterances. Sententiae. Aphorisms. Pithy sayings. Adages. Proverbs. Thoughts. Table-talk. Obiter dicta --- Maxims. Gnomic utterances. Sententiae. Aphorisms. Pithy sayings. Adages. Proverbs. Thoughts. Table-talk. Obiter dicta --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- 82-84 Emblemen. Spreuken. Citaten --- Emblemen. Spreuken. Citaten --- Wisdom literature --- Wisdom --- Experience --- Intellect --- Learning and scholarship --- Reason --- Literature --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Rubenson, Samuel --- Apophthegmata Patrum --- Apophthegmata Patrum. --- History and criticism. --- 30-600 --- Apophthegms of the Fathers --- Apothegms of the Fathers --- Apophtegmes des Pères du désert --- Verba seniorum --- Early Church Period --- Primitive and Early Church Period
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