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Hace 5 días · May 25, 2024. The Age of Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries marked a turning point in human thought, as reason, individualism, and skepticism of traditional authorities took center stage. Luminaries like John Locke, Voltaire, and Immanuel Kant became household names, their ideas forming the bedrock of modernity.
Hace 4 días · The Enlightenment was a complex and multifaceted movement that defies easy summary or characterization. At its core, it was a philosophical project that sought to apply the tools of reason and science to every aspect of human life, from politics and economics to art and education.
Hace 3 días · Enlightenment thought was deeply influential in the political realm. European rulers such as Catherine II of Russia, Joseph II of Austria, and Frederick II of Prussia tried to apply Enlightenment thought on religious and political tolerance, which became known as enlightened absolutism.
Hace 3 días · S.J. Barnett’s vigorous and concise book builds on this current scholarly consensus and pushes it further: with examples drawn from England, France and Italy, Barnett’s Enlightenment is one that cannot be understood outside a Christian context in a century that witnessed no significant rise in unbelief.
Hace 1 día · Summary. Postcolonial discourse is the critical underside of imperialism, the latter a hegemonic form going back to the beginnings of empire building. In the languages of the colonized—those of the ruling class as well as its subjects—a critical discourse of displacement, enslavement, and exploitation co-existed with what Conrad called the ...
Hace 5 días · Even after the intellectual revolutions of the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment, Aristotelian concepts remained embedded in Western thinking.
Highlighting the important difference between Scottish Enlightenment arguments concerning commercial society and the enhanced status of femininity, and feminist arguments regarding women’s legal status, O’Brien offers as an example an interesting short illustration from the work of Francis Hutcheson.
