The "Ruins" of Volne circulated at the end of the 18th century, reflecting in the best possible way the ideas of the Enlightenment. Their central meaning is that the prosperity of empires is directly intertwined with the quality of Education given by the respective rulers to the citizens. In the book, which was first translated into English by Thomas Jefferson, the reader will encounter chapters that touch on socio-political issues and philosophical concerns such as the presence of man in the universe, the beginnings of the organization of societies, the origin of governments and laws, fear and the conspiracies of the tyrants, the search for truth, the sources of suffering in societies, questions about the possible future improvement of the human race, as well as an exhaustive analysis of religious syncretism.
After all, Volnet was one of the first Mythologists of the French School, highlighting the research fields of the origin of religious ideas, the relationship between Christianity and solar worship, the questioning of the historical Jesus and the similarities of the leading figure of the dominant religion with earlier Mediterranean deities.
230 years after their publication, "The Ruins" are published for the first time in the Greek language. The volume you are holding in your hands also includes another work by Volnet, "The Law of Nature" or "Natural Law". The release of the work by the Lux Orbis series of iWrite publications is a very important publishing event, which reveals to the reading public a great, but forgotten text of the French Enlightenment.
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