TheEnlightenment, or the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith. Using the power of the press, Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke, Isaac Newton, and Voltaire questioned accepted knowle...
Secularism - Many, but not all, Enlightenment thinkers were extremely critical of religion. Some rejected Christianity altogether and adopted a religious belief system known as Deism.Main Ideas of the Enlightenment When was the Enlightenment? What were the Causes of the Enlightenment? Lesson Su...
What is the English Enlightenment? - Definition, Ideals & Thinkers Lesson Transcript Instructor Patricia ONeill Cite this lesson The legacy of the Enlightenment is an emphasis on free and open inquiry, the toleration of difference, the importance of a secular society, and the celebration of ...
It stressed individualism, and it rejected the church's control of the secular activities of men. Among the movement's luminaries were Descartes, Newton, and Locke. They, among others, stressed the individual's use of reason to explain and understand the world about himself in all of its ...
II.IntellectualSettingIII.MethodIV.EnlightenmentandReligionThecentralthemeoftheEnlightenmentistheefforttohumanizereligion.Allphilosophersrejectedoriginalsin.V.HistoryVI.SocialScienceandPoliticalThought MainThemes:1.TheEnlightenmenthaditsoriginsinthescientificandintellectualrevolutionsofthe17c.2.Enlightenmentthinkers...
Enlightenment and Government Enlightenment thinkers criticized accepted ideas about government. Some questioned the medieval belief in the divine right of kings [the idea that God chose a country’s king, and that the king got his authority from God.] Many Enlightenment thinkers stressed individual ...
Thomas Reid was a Scottish philosopher who rejected the skeptical Empiricism of David Hume in favour of a “philosophy of common sense,” later espoused by the Scottish School. Reid studied philosophy at Marischal College, Aberdeen, before serving as Pre
Cascardi argues against the view that postmodern culture has rejected Enlightenment beliefs and explores instead the continuities contemporary theory shares with Kant's failed ambition to bring the project of Enlightenment to completion. He explores the link between aesthetics and politics in thinkers as ...
作者:Anthony J. Cascardi 出品人: 页数:278 译者: 出版时间:1999-2 价格:$ 55.37 装帧: isbn号码:9780521484909 丛书系列: 图书标签: Consequences of Enlightenment 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书 图书描述 What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment it claims...
The son of a highly ranked legal family, Buffon changed from legal education to science and contributed to the Enlightenment with works on natural history, in which he rejected the biblical chronology of the past in favor of the Earth being older and flirted with the idea that species cou...