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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... established only when research had produced enough data, and then by inductive reasoning, which, as described in his Novum Organum (1620), derives from ``particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the ...
... established only when research had produced enough data, and then by inductive reasoning, which, as described in his Novum Organum (1620), derives from ``particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the ...
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... been aware more of disintegration than of progress or of theories demolished than of truths established. This was true even within the expanding field of the physical sciences. To gauge the mood of. A HISTORY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT 7.
... been aware more of disintegration than of progress or of theories demolished than of truths established. This was true even within the expanding field of the physical sciences. To gauge the mood of. A HISTORY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT 7.
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... establish rules: for language (the main role of the French Academy), for painting (as in the work of Nicolas Poussin), even for the theatre, where Jean Racine's plays of heightened feeling and pure conflict of ideal or personality ...
... establish rules: for language (the main role of the French Academy), for painting (as in the work of Nicolas Poussin), even for the theatre, where Jean Racine's plays of heightened feeling and pure conflict of ideal or personality ...
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... his main purpose was to establish the principle that religions must be treated as phe- nomena of human experience. The philosophes characteristically believed that history was becoming a science. A HISTORY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT 17.
... his main purpose was to establish the principle that religions must be treated as phe- nomena of human experience. The philosophes characteristically believed that history was becoming a science. A HISTORY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT 17.
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... established church to countenance rational theology created a shock absorber in the form of the Broad Church. In Protestant countries criticism tended to be directed toward amending existing structures: there was a pious as well. A ...
... established church to countenance rational theology created a shock absorber in the form of the Broad Church. In Protestant countries criticism tended to be directed toward amending existing structures: there was a pious as well. A ...
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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