Nobilitas by Alexander Jacob - 9780761818878

NobilitasA Study of European Aristocratic Philosophy from Ancient Greece to the Early Twentieth Century\nAuthor(s): Alexander Jacob\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University Press of America, United States\nImprint: University Press of America\nISBN-13: 9780761818878, 978-0761818878\nSynopsis\nNobilitas is a study of the history of aristocratic philosophy from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century that aims at providing an alternative to the liberal democratic norms, which are propagated today as the only viable socio-political system for the world community. Jacob reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the social and cultural development of European civilization has, for twenty-five centuries, been based not on democratic or communist notions but, rather on aristocratic and nationalist notions. Beginning with the political philosophies of Plato and Aristotle, and continuing through Renaissance and Baroque aristocratic philosophers, the German Idealists, and English and It.