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Introduction | 3 | |
1 | From Nature to Human Nature | 20 |
Nature as Fact or Norm | 20 | |
Natural Law and the Laws of Nature | 24 | |
Human Nature | 28 | |
2 | The Uniformity of Human Nature | 34 |
The Question | 34 | |
Reason and Passion | 36 | |
Instinctual Ethics and Religion | 40 | |
Uniformity Affirmed | 46 | |
3 | The Diversity of Human Beings | 53 |
The Role of Experience | 53 | |
Experiential Religion and Ethics | 55 | |
Uniformity Challenged | 58 | |
4 | Physical and Moral Influences on National Character | 64 |
Voyages and Travel | 64 | |
Climate | 66 | |
Institutions and Individuals | 71 | |
National Character | 76 | |
5 | Understanding Cultural Diversity | 88 |
The Question | 88 | |
Provisional Generalizations | 90 | |
6 | A Cultural Miscellany | 98 |
Russians and Others | 98 | |
Jews | 103 | |
Blacks and Native Americans | 107 | |
7 | The Mildly Exotic East | 116 |
The Islamic World | 116 | |
India | 119 | |
China and the Chinese Sage | 121 | |
The Waning of the Chinese Vogue | 126 | |
8 | Historical Diversity | 136 |
The Place of History | 136 | |
Voltaire and History | 139 | |
History in the Encyclopedia | 146 | |
9 | The Case of Ancient Greece | 155 |
Greece in the Enlightenment | 155 | |
Greece in the Encyclopedia | 161 | |
10 | The Case of the Middle Ages | 174 |
An Enlightenment Consensus? | 174 | |
The Middle Ages in the Encyclopedia | 185 | |
Conclusion | 194 | |
Bibliography | 207 | |
Index | 217 |
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