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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... moral faculties to create institutions by which the inter- necine struggle can be mitigated and even turned to the common good . He wrote in his Moral Sentiments the famous observation that he was to repeat later in The Wealth of ...
... moral faculties to create institutions by which the inter- necine struggle can be mitigated and even turned to the common good . He wrote in his Moral Sentiments the famous observation that he was to repeat later in The Wealth of ...
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... moral truths are known , Clarke accepted Cudworth's and More's analogy with truths of mathematics and added the idea that what human reason discerns is a certain " fitness or unfitness " about the relationship between circumstances and ...
... moral truths are known , Clarke accepted Cudworth's and More's analogy with truths of mathematics and added the idea that what human reason discerns is a certain " fitness or unfitness " about the relationship between circumstances and ...
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... moral duty to act in such problematical circumstances . This led to Butler's famous doctrine of probability - " probability is the very guide of life . ” The moral sense school reached its fullest development in the works of the ...
... moral duty to act in such problematical circumstances . This led to Butler's famous doctrine of probability - " probability is the very guide of life . ” The moral sense school reached its fullest development in the works of the ...
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A History of the Enlightenment | 1 |
The Scientific Revolution | 38 |
Man and Evolution | 79 |
Urheberrecht | |
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18th century A. C. Grayling aesthetic argued authority Bacon became Britannica Burke civil Claude-Adrien Helvétius concept constitution contemporary criticism d'Alembert David Hume Declaration Deism Deist Denis Diderot Descartes Diderot economic Edinburgh elected Émile Encyclopédie England English Essay established Europe experience force France freedom French historical Enlightenment Hobbes human nature Hume ideas important individual influence intellectual Isaac Newton Jacobin Club Jean-Jacques Rousseau John Locke judgement Kant knowledge labour later Leibniz liberal liberty Locke's London mathematics ment metaphysics method mind modern moral motion Newton object Paine Paris Parliament philosopher physical political Principia principles Prussia published reason reform religion religious René Descartes Revolution revolutionary Robespierre Rousseau Royal scientific Scottish Scottish Enlightenment sense Smith social society Spinoza theory Thomas Thomas Paine thought tion Treatise truth universe utilitarian Voltaire Wealth of Nations Wilkes writings wrote