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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... rational alternative to religion , but " scientism " , taking the form of a salvation myth in which science promises ... rationality had become poisonous and destructive . For Enlightenment thin- kers , scientific rationality promised ...
... rational alternative to religion , but " scientism " , taking the form of a salvation myth in which science promises ... rationality had become poisonous and destructive . For Enlightenment thin- kers , scientific rationality promised ...
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... rational and practical man . Virtue should be cultivated through proper upbringing , preparatory to " studies " in the strict sense . The child first learns to do through activity and , later , comes to understand what has been done ...
... rational and practical man . Virtue should be cultivated through proper upbringing , preparatory to " studies " in the strict sense . The child first learns to do through activity and , later , comes to understand what has been done ...
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... rationality of religious belief . Hobbes , for instance , argued that the proposition that faith is rational belonged not to the intellect but to the will . The significance of religious proposi- tions , in other words , lies not in ...
... rationality of religious belief . Hobbes , for instance , argued that the proposition that faith is rational belonged not to the intellect but to the will . The significance of religious proposi- tions , in other words , lies not in ...
Inhalt
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