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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... wrote, ``is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in ...
... wrote, ``is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self-imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in ...
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... wrote, and proceeded to urge further progress towards in- dependence of thought. In describing intellectual immaturity as the state of pupillage, of the need for guidance from another, he was also attacking the various hegemonies which ...
... wrote, and proceeded to urge further progress towards in- dependence of thought. In describing intellectual immaturity as the state of pupillage, of the need for guidance from another, he was also attacking the various hegemonies which ...
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... wrote, there has never been ``a real man, a real citizen, a real believer.'' The same outright rejection of religion's assertion of author- ity over thought occured in Baron d'Holbach's Natural Pol- itics, where in the conclusion he wrote ...
... wrote, there has never been ``a real man, a real citizen, a real believer.'' The same outright rejection of religion's assertion of author- ity over thought occured in Baron d'Holbach's Natural Pol- itics, where in the conclusion he wrote ...
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... wrote optimistically of the new century ``which will become more enlightened day by day, so that all previous centuries will be lost in darkness by comparison''. Reviewing the experience in 1784, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant saw ...
... wrote optimistically of the new century ``which will become more enlightened day by day, so that all previous centuries will be lost in darkness by comparison''. Reviewing the experience in 1784, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant saw ...
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... wrote the encyclopaedist Denis Diderot to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, ``that I am, like you, citizen of the great city of the world.'' ``A philosopher'', wrote Edward Gibbon, ``may consider Europe as a great republic, whose ...
... wrote the encyclopaedist Denis Diderot to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, ``that I am, like you, citizen of the great city of the world.'' ``A philosopher'', wrote Edward Gibbon, ``may consider Europe as a great republic, whose ...
Inhalt
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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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