Religion and the Enlightenment: From Descartes to KantReligion was an integral part of almost everyone's daily life in seventeenth and eighteenth century Western Europe. Yet new philosophical ideas were emerging, ideas that became the foundation of our modern world. This book, designed for classroom use, reveals the roots of Enlightenment thought as well as their results, both positive and negative, with special attention to figures such as Descartes, Pascal, Rousseau, and Kant. |
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Inhalt
Changing Ideals | 1 |
Enlightenment Power and Context | 27 |
René Descartes | 53 |
Blaise Pascal | 75 |
The Distant God of Deism | 99 |
From Scepticism to Atheism | 124 |
Science and Religion | 150 |
JeanJacques Rousseau g | 179 |
Immanuel Kant | 203 |
Conclusion | 229 |
Notes | 235 |
| 243 | |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
achievements allowed appear argued argument atheist attack attempt authority became become belief body called Catholic cause Christian church claim clear concept Concerning considered critical critique cultural deism Descartes developed difficulties distinction divine doctrine doubt effect eighteenth century Enlightenment established ethical evidence example existence experience explain fact faith France freedom French give grounds happiness human Hume ideals ideas important individual influence intellectual interpretation Kant Kant's knowledge leading less live major materialism matter means method mind moral moral law namely nature Newton original particular Pascal Pensées period person philosophes political possible practice principle problem Providence pure question rational reality reason rejection religion religious result revelation Rousseau scepticism scientific simply social society theology theory things thinkers thinking thought toleration true truth understanding universe Voltaire
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Religion and the Enlightenment: From Descartes to Kant Glory, jest and riddle |
| Autor/in | James M. Byrne |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Verlag | Westminster John Knox Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0664257607, 9780664257606 |
| Länge | 253 Seiten |
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