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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... Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh INTRODUCTION The Enlightenment A. C. Grayling Enlightenment Values When one. Immanuel Kant, engraving. The Granger Collection, New York which the Enlightenment philosophes were engaged, and ...
... Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh INTRODUCTION The Enlightenment A. C. Grayling Enlightenment Values When one. Immanuel Kant, engraving. The Granger Collection, New York which the Enlightenment philosophes were engaged, and ...
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... Enlightenment. Thought. In a cosmopolitan culture it was the pre-eminence of ... Scottish philosopher David Hume, ``that I am, like you, citizen of the great ... Enlightenment recognized a joint in- heritance, Christian as well as classical ...
... Enlightenment. Thought. In a cosmopolitan culture it was the pre-eminence of ... Scottish philosopher David Hume, ``that I am, like you, citizen of the great ... Enlightenment recognized a joint in- heritance, Christian as well as classical ...
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... Scottish. Enlightenment. In 1762 Voltaire wrote in characteristically provocative fash- ion that ``today it is from Scotland that we get rules of taste in all the arts, from epic poetry to gardening.'' Contemporaries referred to Edinburgh ...
... Scottish. Enlightenment. In 1762 Voltaire wrote in characteristically provocative fash- ion that ``today it is from Scotland that we get rules of taste in all the arts, from epic poetry to gardening.'' Contemporaries referred to Edinburgh ...
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... Scottish Reformation, discovered, Scotland needed an alternative method of ... Enlightenment found in Edinburgh a recipe for development that differed from ... Scottish Enlightenment was neither a single school of philosophical thought ...
... Scottish Reformation, discovered, Scotland needed an alternative method of ... Enlightenment found in Edinburgh a recipe for development that differed from ... Scottish Enlightenment was neither a single school of philosophical thought ...
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... Scottish Enlightenment. These developments had four key characteristics. The first was a scepticism about various forms of rationalism and about the attempts by such thinkers as Descartes in France and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in ...
... Scottish Enlightenment. These developments had four key characteristics. The first was a scepticism about various forms of rationalism and about the attempts by such thinkers as Descartes in France and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in ...
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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