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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... Later critics blamed the Enlightenment for the excesses of the French Revolution, for Nazism and Stalinism, and for what they lament as the increase of immorality and amorality consequent on the weakening of religious traditions. In the ...
... Later critics blamed the Enlightenment for the excesses of the French Revolution, for Nazism and Stalinism, and for what they lament as the increase of immorality and amorality consequent on the weakening of religious traditions. In the ...
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... later critical reaction to the Enlightenment focused on what it saw as its self-destructive over-optimism. In Dialectic of Enlightenment, which is said to have begun in conversations in a New York kitchen between its authors Max ...
... later critical reaction to the Enlightenment focused on what it saw as its self-destructive over-optimism. In Dialectic of Enlightenment, which is said to have begun in conversations in a New York kitchen between its authors Max ...
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... later Lord Kames, who helped reinvigorate the society, begins the first of these published papers (``Of the Laws of Motion'') in a way that provides a manifesto-like statement for the society's activities: ``Nothing has more perplexed ...
... later Lord Kames, who helped reinvigorate the society, begins the first of these published papers (``Of the Laws of Motion'') in a way that provides a manifesto-like statement for the society's activities: ``Nothing has more perplexed ...
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... later, another radical abbeÂ, Gabriel de Mably, started with equality as the law of nature and argued that the introduction of property had destroyed the golden age of man. In England, William Godwin, following Holbach in obeisance to ...
... later, another radical abbeÂ, Gabriel de Mably, started with equality as the law of nature and argued that the introduction of property had destroyed the golden age of man. In England, William Godwin, following Holbach in obeisance to ...
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... later time could be deduced through calculations based on the laws of motion. Armed with matter and motion, Descartes attacked the basic Copernican problems. Bodies once in motion, Descartes argued, remain in motion in a straight line ...
... later time could be deduced through calculations based on the laws of motion. Armed with matter and motion, Descartes attacked the basic Copernican problems. Bodies once in motion, Descartes argued, remain in motion in a straight line ...
Inhalt
1 | |
38 | |
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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