TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kellogg,Michael K.
TI  - The Wisdom of the Enlightenment
SN  - 9781633887947
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Prometheus
KW  - Aufklärung
KW  - Weltbild
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Fernzugriff
N1  - E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich; 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
N2  - 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
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