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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... producing valuable things, whether in the arts or knowledge; and the same is true of the technologies de- signed to serve its interests, as exemplified in the sphere of popular culture by the best work in cinema and television. By ...
... producing valuable things, whether in the arts or knowledge; and the same is true of the technologies de- signed to serve its interests, as exemplified in the sphere of popular culture by the best work in cinema and television. By ...
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... 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 most general axioms last of all ...
... 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 most general axioms last of all ...
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... produce of the land. Even Adam Smith, who wrote The Wealth of Nations (1776) with a capitalist economy in mind, could see his avowed disciple, the British statesman William Pitt, move only cautiously in the direction of free trade ...
... produce of the land. Even Adam Smith, who wrote The Wealth of Nations (1776) with a capitalist economy in mind, could see his avowed disciple, the British statesman William Pitt, move only cautiously in the direction of free trade ...
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... produced such scientists as Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta, was its practical tendency. Its proponents introduced to political philosophy utilitarianism's slogan ``the greatest happiness of the greatest number''. They also felt the ...
... produced such scientists as Luigi Galvani and Alessandro Volta, was its practical tendency. Its proponents introduced to political philosophy utilitarianism's slogan ``the greatest happiness of the greatest number''. They also felt the ...
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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