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12 giu 2024 · David Hume, an 18th-century Enlightenment thinker, made significant contributions to both philosophy and history through his major works. His seminal work, “A Treatise of Human Nature,” published between 1739 and 1740, delves into human knowledge and emotions from an empirical and skeptical perspective.
2 giorni fa · Scotland - Enlightenment, Philosophers, Culture: No straightforward connection can be drawn between the union and the exceptional 18th-century flowering of intellectual life known as the Scottish Enlightenment. Absence of civil strife, however, permitted the best minds to turn, if they chose, from politics and its 17th-century twin, religion, and few of the best minds from 1707 onward were in ...
30 giu 2024 · Samuel Richardson (baptized Aug. 19, 1689, Mackworth, near Derby, Derbyshire, Eng.—died July 4, 1761, Parson’s Green, near London) was an English novelist who expanded the dramatic possibilities of the novel by his invention and use of the letter form (“ epistolary novel ”). His major novels were Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1747–48).
18 giu 2024 · Enlightenment Movement: The Enlightenment Movement was an intellectual movement during the 17th-18th century which emphasized reason, individualism, skepticism towards traditional institutions, and belief in progress through knowledge. Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor and architect who worked primarily in Rome.
22 giu 2024 · The meaning of THE ENLIGHTENMENT is a movement of the 18th century that stressed the belief that science and logic give people more knowledge and understanding than tradition and religion.
24 giu 2024 · 1. From ancient times to the Enlightenment -- v. 2. From the Renaissance to the present. Sources of Western Society (volume 1) by John P. McKay et al. Call Number: CB245 .S584 2011. ISBN: 9780312640798. From antiquity to the Enlightenment. Three Thousand Years of Educational Wisdom by Robert Ulich.
15 giu 2024 · Education - Enlightenment, Reforms, Systems: The absolutism of the 18th century has often been called “benevolent despotism,” referring to the rule of such monarchs as Frederick II (the Great) of Prussia, Peter I (the Great) and Catherine II (the Great) of Russia, Maria Theresa and Joseph II of Austria, and lesser figures who were presumably sufficiently touched by the ideas of the ...
