The Ideas that Made the Modern WorldEncyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 01.10.2008 - 408 Seiten The Ideas that made the Modern World is part of the Britannica Guide Series that offers a look into the people, philosophy, and history of the enlightenment. The Britannica Guides series offers an essential introduction to many of the key issues of our time. Clear, accurate, and meticulously researched, the series gives both background and analysis for when you need to know for sure what is really happening in the world, whether you are an expert, student, or traveler. |
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... Leibniz in Germany to find a single method or set of rules of rationality from which all truths might be deduced. The second was the central place given to what was connoted by the terms sentiment and sense (as in the ``moral sense ...
... Leibniz in Germany to find a single method or set of rules of rationality from which all truths might be deduced. The second was the central place given to what was connoted by the terms sentiment and sense (as in the ``moral sense ...
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... Leibniz), who affirms that this is the ``best of all possible worlds'', and Martin, who believes in the reality of evil, in a way that highlights the issues and is as significant now as then. Voltaire mounted his campaigns from a ...
... Leibniz), who affirms that this is the ``best of all possible worlds'', and Martin, who believes in the reality of evil, in a way that highlights the issues and is as significant now as then. Voltaire mounted his campaigns from a ...
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... the papacy. But there was nothing comparable, even in the Catho- lic south and Rhineland, to the revolt of Western intellectuals against traditional dogma. Amid all his speculations, Leibniz, who more. A HISTORY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT 31.
... the papacy. But there was nothing comparable, even in the Catho- lic south and Rhineland, to the revolt of Western intellectuals against traditional dogma. Amid all his speculations, Leibniz, who more. A HISTORY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT 31.
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... Leibniz, who more than any other influenced German thought, had held to the idea of a personal God not subject to the limitations of a material universe. It was devotion, not indifference, that made him, with Bossuet, seek ground for ...
... Leibniz, who more than any other influenced German thought, had held to the idea of a personal God not subject to the limitations of a material universe. It was devotion, not indifference, that made him, with Bossuet, seek ground for ...
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... Leibniz laid claim to priority in the invention of the calculus; and Immanuel Kant offered the basis of a still-current hypothesis regarding the formation of the solar system (the Kant±Laplace nebular hypothesis). In reflecting on human ...
... Leibniz laid claim to priority in the invention of the calculus; and Immanuel Kant offered the basis of a still-current hypothesis regarding the formation of the solar system (the Kant±Laplace nebular hypothesis). In reflecting on human ...
Inhalt
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3 Man and Evolution | 67 |
4 Culture and Education | 100 |
5 Economics and Industrial Revolution | 146 |
Enlightenment Politics | 169 |
7 Philosophy Ethics and Religion | 212 |
Thinkers Writers and Revolutionaries | 251 |
Extracts and Further Reading | 319 |
Further Reading | 355 |
Index | 357 |
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