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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... scientific proof For the motion of the planets in Newton's Binupia, and the attempt to catalogue the entire world in Diderot's Enquapéa'ie to the American DEClaration of Independence, the foundations of modern capitalism, and the Bill ...
... scientific proof For the motion of the planets in Newton's Binupia, and the attempt to catalogue the entire world in Diderot's Enquapéa'ie to the American DEClaration of Independence, the foundations of modern capitalism, and the Bill ...
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... Scientific Revolution Man and Evolution Culture and Education Economics and Industrial Revolution The Age of Revolution: Enlightenment Politics Philosophy, Ethics, and Religion Key Figures: Thinkers, Writers, and Revolutionaries Key ...
... Scientific Revolution Man and Evolution Culture and Education Economics and Industrial Revolution The Age of Revolution: Enlightenment Politics Philosophy, Ethics, and Religion Key Figures: Thinkers, Writers, and Revolutionaries Key ...
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... its fullest contemporary realisation), and backward into the scientific, political, and philosophical revolutions of the seventeenth century. Reference to ``Enlightenment values'' is an even more ca- pacious Introduction.
... its fullest contemporary realisation), and backward into the scientific, political, and philosophical revolutions of the seventeenth century. Reference to ``Enlightenment values'' is an even more ca- pacious Introduction.
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... values of the historical Enlightenment and today's ``Enlightenment values''. Reason, tolerance, autonomy, conceptions of the rights of man, the application of scientific method to social and political. INTRODUCTION xi.
... values of the historical Enlightenment and today's ``Enlightenment values''. Reason, tolerance, autonomy, conceptions of the rights of man, the application of scientific method to social and political. INTRODUCTION xi.
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... scientific outlook, are today's versions of the historical Enlightenment's values. Some commentators on the latter, usually its critics, make the mistake of thinking that the historical Enlightenment was perfectibilist in its hopes ...
... scientific outlook, are today's versions of the historical Enlightenment's values. Some commentators on the latter, usually its critics, make the mistake of thinking that the historical Enlightenment was perfectibilist in its hopes ...
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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18th century Academy aesthetic argued authority Bacon became Bentham body Burke cause civil concept constitution contemporary criticism culture d'Alembert David Hume declared Deist Denis Diderot Descartes Diderot EÂmile economic elected EncyclopeÂdie England English Essay established ethics Europe experience force France freedom French French Revolution historical Enlightenment Hobbes Hume ideas Immanuel Kant important individual influence intellectual Jacobin Club Jean-Jacques Rousseau John Locke judgement Kant knowledge labour later Leibniz liberal liberty Locke Locke's London mathematics ment metaphysics method mind modern moral motion Newton Newtonian object Paine Paris Parliament philosopher physical physiocrats political Principia principles produced published reason reform religion religious Revolution revolutionary Robert Boyle Robespierre Rousseau Royal scientific Scottish Scottish Enlightenment sense Shaftesbury Smith social society Spinoza theory Thomas Thomas Paine thought tion Treatise universal utilitarian Voltaire Wealth of Nations Wilkes writings wrote