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Hace 3 días · The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
Hace 2 días · In The Enlightenment and Original Sin, published in May by the University of Chicago Press, he argues that the notoriously hard-to-define Enlightenment took coherent shape in opposition to the Christian doctrine of original sin. But he argues that same doctrine also helps explain the Enlightenment’s eventual contradictions, which rested on ...
Hace 4 días · The video provides an in-depth explanation of the Enlightenment period, showcasing its historical origin, key characteristics, and prominent figures such as Isaac Newton, John Locke, and Immanuel Kant.
O’Brien’s discussion of Scottish Enlightenment thinking is interesting and convincing. What it lacks, however, is an examination of the impact of the Enlightenment upon 18th-century Scottish women, and why there appear to have been far more public English female intellectuals than Scottish ones.
Hace 3 días · For a generation Peter Gay’s book on the Enlightenment (a text which perhaps tells us more about the 1960s than the 1760s) informed scholars that Enlightenment and Christianity were polarities and that the defeat of dogma and metaphysics were the harbingers of secular modernity.
Hace 2 días · The invasions of America launched by successive European empires, beginning in the 15th century, created the sparks from which an age of intellectual revolution took light. Enlightenment, as Winterer puts it herself, was ‘a phenomenon of the age of empires’.
Hace 4 días · In full: Francis Bacon, Viscount Saint Alban. Also called (1603–18): Sir Francis Bacon. Born: January 22, 1561, York House, London, England. Died: April 9, 1626, London (aged 65) Title / Office: lord chancellor (1618-1621), England. parliament (1584), England. Notable Works: “Advancement of Learning” “Commentarius Solutus” “De Sapientia Veterum”
