The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters
One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world. Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry....
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One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world. Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were conceived and developed during the E
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780679645313 (0679645314)
Publisher: Random House
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
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...