The Britannica Guide to the Ideas that Made the Modern World: The People, Philosophy, and History of the EnlightenmentRobinson, 2008 - 369 Seiten A primer on the philosophers, scientists and theorists of the Enlightenment, including Newton, Locke, Hume, Voltaire and Spinoza, this is one in a series of Britannica Guides to some of the main issues of our times. |
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... liberalism . One can say , then , that the liberal ideal is a major offspring of the historical Enlightenment , for it was the historical En- lightenment's explicit aim to break strangleholds of orthodoxy and traditional authority over ...
... liberalism . One can say , then , that the liberal ideal is a major offspring of the historical Enlightenment , for it was the historical En- lightenment's explicit aim to break strangleholds of orthodoxy and traditional authority over ...
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... liberalism ultimately aspired to a system of government based on majority rule - i.e. , one in which government ... liberal solution to the problem of limiting the power of a democratic majority rested on various devices . The first ...
... liberalism ultimately aspired to a system of government based on majority rule - i.e. , one in which government ... liberal solution to the problem of limiting the power of a democratic majority rested on various devices . The first ...
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... liberal philosophers , she saw very quickly that the reforms advocated by Montesquieu or Rousseau , which were difficult enough to put into practice in Europe , did not at all correspond to the realities of an anarchic and backward ...
... liberal philosophers , she saw very quickly that the reforms advocated by Montesquieu or Rousseau , which were difficult enough to put into practice in Europe , did not at all correspond to the realities of an anarchic and backward ...
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A History of the Enlightenment | 1 |
The Scientific Revolution | 38 |
Man and Evolution | 79 |
Urheberrecht | |
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