The Second Age Of Enlightenment
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Author | : Serge Miles Rodnunsky |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2017-01-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781540665904 |
Thinkers and leaders of the first age of enlightenment fought and died over many decades to crush tyranny and find freedom and humanity through representative democracy. This book is intended to identify and encourage continued progress towards the attainable goal of human survival. The 2nd Age of Enlightenment is a fascinating exploration into the many critical issues we face. From mankind's evolution on the plains of the African Savannah to our exponential technical advancements and population growth, current events speak to our need for active progressive thought and actions. Taken from the long view of history this fascinating read explores directions and goals towards critical species surival and continued effort in creating a more perfect union - worldwide. www.facebook.com/2ndAgeofEnlightenment
Author | : Hourly History |
Publisher | : Hourly History |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2016-12-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1540742814 |
From its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effect on public life in Europe, the Age of Enlightenment is the defining intellectual and cultural movement of the modern world. Using reason as its core value, the Enlightenment believed that progress and the betterment of the human condition was inevitable. Inside you will read about… ✓ The Great Thinkers of the Enlightenment ✓ Engaging With Religion ✓ Morality in the Age of Enlightenment ✓ Society in the Age of Enlightenment ✓ Science and Political Economy ✓ The Enlightenment and the Public ✓ Print Culture and the Press Philosophies of the Enlightenment gave birth to the disciplines of political science, economic theory, sociology and anthropology, the disciplines that still form the basis of how we understand life in the 21st century. A bold attack on the Church, the State and the Monarchy, the Age of Enlightenment was a direct challenge to the status quo that sought freedom for all.
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1979 |
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Presents information on scientists from the Age of Enlightenment, compiled as part of a student resource on the universe by the University of Michigan. Offers access to sites related to Ada Byrn, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, and others.
Author | : Sarah Eron |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2014-03-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1611495008 |
Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the Augustan age created a new form of inspiration, one that not only changed the relationship of literary production to authority in the modern period but also crucially contributes to defining the movement of secularization in literature from the Renaissance to Romanticism. Seeking to redefine what we mean by secularization in the early stages of modernity, Eron argues that secularization’s link to enthusiasm, or inspiration, often associated with Romanticism, begins in the imaginative literature of the early eighteenth century. If Romantic enthusiasm has been described through the rhetoric of transport, or “unworlding,” then Augustan invocation appears more akin to a process of “worlding” in its central aim to appeal to the social other as a function of the eighteenth-century belief in a literary public sphere. By reformulating the passive structure of ancient invocation and subjecting it to the more dialogical methods of modern apostrophe and address, authors such as the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld formally revise inspiration in a way that generates a new and distinctive representation of the author. In this context, inspiration becomes a social gesture—an apostrophe to a friend or judging spectator or an allusion to the mental or aesthetic faculties of the author himself, his genius. Articulating this struggle toward modernity at its inception, this book examines modern authority at the moment of its extraordinariness, when it was still tied to the creative energies of inspiration, to the revelatory powers that marked the awakening of a new age, an era and an ethos of Enlightenment.
Author | : John Robertson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 0199591784 |
This introduction explores the history of the 18th-century Enlightenment movement. Considering its intellectual commitments, Robertson then turns to their impact on society, and the ways in which Enlightenment thinkers sought to further the goal of human betterment, by promoting economic improvement and civil and political justice.
Author | : Bill Sharpe |
Publisher | : Triarchy Press |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2020-06-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1911193872 |
A practical framework for thinking about the future... and an exploration of 'future consciousness' and how to develop it
Author | : Anton M. Matytsin |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2016-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 142142052X |
8. A Matter of Debate: Conceptions of Material Substance in the Scientific Revolution -- 9. War of the Worlds: Cartesian Vortices and Newtonian Gravitation in Eighteenth-Century Astronomy -- 10. Historical Pyrrhonism and Its Discontents -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Author | : S. Frederick Starr |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2015-06-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691165858 |
The forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment—its rise, fall, and enduring legacy In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds—remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly all of these figures wrote in Arabic, they were long assumed to have been Arabs. In fact, they were from Central Asia—drawn from the Persianate and Turkic peoples of a region that today extends from Kazakhstan southward through Afghanistan, and from the easternmost province of Iran through Xinjiang, China. Lost Enlightenment recounts how, between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in trade and economic development, the size and sophistication of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the advancement of knowledge in many fields. Central Asians achieved signal breakthroughs in astronomy, mathematics, geology, medicine, chemistry, music, social science, philosophy, and theology, among other subjects. They gave algebra its name, calculated the earth's diameter with unprecedented precision, wrote the books that later defined European medicine, and penned some of the world's greatest poetry. One scholar, working in Afghanistan, even predicted the existence of North and South America—five centuries before Columbus. Rarely in history has a more impressive group of polymaths appeared at one place and time. No wonder that their writings influenced European culture from the time of St. Thomas Aquinas down to the scientific revolution, and had a similarly deep impact in India and much of Asia. Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise. Informed by the latest scholarship yet written in a lively and accessible style, this is a book that will surprise general readers and specialists alike.
Author | : Steven Pinker |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2018-02-13 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0525427570 |
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR "My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. By the author of the new book, Rationality. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases. Instead, follow the data: In seventy-five jaw-dropping graphs, Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise, not just in the West, but worldwide. This progress is not the result of some cosmic force. It is a gift of the Enlightenment: the conviction that reason and science can enhance human flourishing. Far from being a naïve hope, the Enlightenment, we now know, has worked. But more than ever, it needs a vigorous defense. The Enlightenment project swims against currents of human nature--tribalism, authoritarianism, demonization, magical thinking--which demagogues are all too willing to exploit. Many commentators, committed to political, religious, or romantic ideologies, fight a rearguard action against it. The result is a corrosive fatalism and a willingness to wreck the precious institutions of liberal democracy and global cooperation. With intellectual depth and literary flair, Enlightenment Now makes the case for reason, science, and humanism: the ideals we need to confront our problems and continue our progress.
Author | : Samia I. Spencer |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1992-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253207258 |
"The collection is more than the sum of its parts and it will be difficult even for men to look at the French Enlightenment and the French Revolution in quite the same way again." —London Review of Books " . . . a significant contribution to the general history of women. . . . an indispensable complement to our understanding of the eighteenth century." —Romance Quarterly