A case for the Enlightenment, ten essays
Frits van Holthoon
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Frits van Holthoon, A case for the Enlightenment, ten essays (2017), Logos Verlag, Berlin, ISBN: 9783832592080
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Beschreibung / Abstract
The message of these essays is that the Enlightenment should not be regarded as a revolutionary programme for the future. The philosophers of the Enlightenment hoped to educate individuals in the light of modern science according to Kant's adage: Aude sapere and did not want to change the structure of society.
F.L.van Holthoon is emeritus professor of social history in the University of Groningen.
F.L.van Holthoon is emeritus professor of social history in the University of Groningen.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- BEGINN
- 1 What is the Enlightenment?
- 2 The Networking of the Enlightenment
- 3 Deism, Prospect or Threat?
- 4 The Nature of Buffon
- 5 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an Interpretation
- 6 Montesquieu and Hume on the Balance of Powers
- 7 Economics and the Science of Administration
- 8 The Black Side of the Mirror: Love, Lust and the Marquis of Sade
- 9 The Idea of Progress and the End of History
- 10 Back to the Enlightenment?