Anthony Pagden
Birth date: May 27, 1945
Anthony Pagden's Books
The book it's not a book on the history or the philosophy of the enlightenment age, but, rather, a chronicle on how they thought about thinking about science and the science of man.He characterizes the Enlightenment by it's "dynamic and cosmopolitan" approach to thinking. The dynamic approach reject...
The author's make-believe take on the East excludes India, barely mentioned, and China and Japan, mentioned even less. By the East he means the Persian Empire and the Islamic middle east. He has a fantasy that the history of the world can be described by the "battle line drawn" between Europe and th...