The Philosophical Dictionary for the Pocket
Author : Voltaire
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 1765
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Author : Voltaire
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 1765
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Author : J. C. D. Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 40,74 MB
Release : 2024-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0198916302
Enlightenment studies are currently in a state of flux, with unresolved arguments among its adherents about its dates, its locations, and the contents of the 'movement'. This book cuts the Gordian knot. There are many books claiming to explain the Enlightenment, but most assume that it was a thing. J. C. D. Clark shows what it actually was, namely a historiographical concept. Currently 'the Enlightenment' is a term widely accepted across popular culture and in a variety of academic disciplines, notably history, philosophy, political theory, political science, literary studies, and theology; Clark calls for a fundamental reconsideration in each. The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History provides a critical historical analysis of the Enlightenment in England, Scotland, France, Germany, and the United States from c. 1650 to the present. It argues that the degree of commonality between social and intellectual movements in each--and, more broadly, between the five societies--has been overstated for polemical purposes. Clark shows that the concept of 'the Enlightenment' was not widely adopted in those societies until the mid-twentieth century; indeed, that it was unknown in the eighteenth. Without the concept, people at the time were unable to act in ways that would have created the Enlightenment as a coherent movement. Since the conventional account has held that the Enlightenment was a phenomenon, the idea could be used as a component of what has been called a 'civil religion': a summing up of the myths of origin, aims, and essential values of a society from which dissent is not permitted. An appreciation that it was instead a historiographical concept undermines, in turn, the idea that there was any great transition to what came to be called 'modernity'.
Author : DICTIONARY.
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 1765
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Page : 508 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 1874
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 512 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : Library of Congress
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Page : 512 pages
File Size : 39,19 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Library catalogs
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Page : 762 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Authors, French
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Author : Theodore Besterman
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Page : 266 pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Eighteenth century
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Author : Voltaire Voltaire
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780259187608
Excerpt from The Philosophical Dictionary for the Pocket: Written in French by a Society of Men of Letters, and Translated Into English From the Last Geneva Edition, Corrected by the Authors; With Notes, Containing a Refutation of Such Passages as Are Any Way Exceptionable in Regard to Religion Sr. Thomas, queftion 1 x 8, article 2, fays, That the thrones are as near to God as the cherubim and feraphim, becaufe it is on them that God firs. Sco ms has computed the angels to amount to a thou fand millions. The antient mythology of good and bad genii having fpread itfelf into Greece, and to on to Rome, it has there been fanftified, and to every man has been aliigned a good and evil an gel;one aflifling him, and the other annoying him, from his cradle to his coffin: but; whether thefe good and evil angels continually lhift ftations from one to another, or whether they are relieved by others of their order, is not yet known. Here upon St. Thomas's Summary of Divinity may be confulted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Hywel Berwyn Evans
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Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,63 MB
Release : 1959
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