Kellogg, Michael K. <br/><br/>
The Wisdom of the Enlightenment. 
Michael K. Kellogg  
 - Blue Ridge Summit :  Prometheus,  2022.  ©2022. 
 - 1 online resource (353 pages) 
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<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Descartes and the Mechanical Universe -- 2 John Milton and the Paradise Within -- 3 Molière -- 4 Pascal and the Hidden God -- 5 Spinoza -- 6 Defoe and Swift -- 7 Voltaire and the Philosophes -- 8 Samuel Johnson on the Stability of Truth -- 9 David Hume and the End of Philosophy -- 10 Kant and the Claims of Reason -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index. 
<br/><br/> From Descartes' assertion of "I think, therefore I am," to the philosophies of Enlightenment thinkers like Moliere, Spinoza, Voltaire, Hume, and Kant, this book charts the new and revolutionary philosophies at a time when progress seemed possible across the whole range of human knowledge and endeavor. In sweeping aside tired superstitions and applying a new scientific methodology, the Enlightenment ideas of progress through free exercise of reason ushered us into the modern world. This engaging and comprehensive survey of Enlightenment thoughts and thinkers is a celebration of the faith that all problems are solvable by human reason. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781633887947 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Aufklärung<br/>Weltbild
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Enlightenment. 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/><br/>Fernzugriff