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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... reasons why they retained use of the name. One was that until the geological and biological discoveries of the ... Reason, tolerance, autonomy, conceptions of the rights of man, the application of scientific method to social and ...
... reasons why they retained use of the name. One was that until the geological and biological discoveries of the ... Reason, tolerance, autonomy, conceptions of the rights of man, the application of scientific method to social and ...
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... reason and free enquiry. Among the central assumptions of this outlook was the idea that the natural and social universes are rationally ordered and that human enquiry can grasp their nature through empirical observation and rational ...
... reason and free enquiry. Among the central assumptions of this outlook was the idea that the natural and social universes are rationally ordered and that human enquiry can grasp their nature through empirical observation and rational ...
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... reason publicly in all matters. But on all sides I hear: `Do not argue!' The officer says, `Do not argue, drill!' The tax man says, `Do not argue, pay!' The pastor says, `Do not argue, believe!' '' Officers and tax men are authorities ...
... reason publicly in all matters. But on all sides I hear: `Do not argue!' The officer says, `Do not argue, drill!' The tax man says, `Do not argue, pay!' The pastor says, `Do not argue, believe!' '' Officers and tax men are authorities ...
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... reason and applying scientifically-minded rationality to build- ing better lives and societies. The Enlightenment project was accordingly a creative and a reforming one, premised on the promise and demand of freedom ± most especially ...
... reason and applying scientifically-minded rationality to build- ing better lives and societies. The Enlightenment project was accordingly a creative and a reforming one, premised on the promise and demand of freedom ± most especially ...
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... reason and experience; its opposite, heteronymy, means control over one by someone or something else; it means subjection of one's will to the will of an external authority, traditionally a deity or a monarch. Of course the fact that ...
... reason and experience; its opposite, heteronymy, means control over one by someone or something else; it means subjection of one's will to the will of an external authority, traditionally a deity or a monarch. Of course the fact that ...
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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