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1 giorno fa · The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
10 ore fa · Abstract. In this chapter I provide the theoretical and historical background for the Romanticism of the contingent self. Eighteenth-century philosophers were deeply interested in the question whether the self existed. While many philosophers insisted they could prove the existence of the self, others proposed a sceptical view.
1 giorno fa · Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27 [a]) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. [7] He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed.
10 ore fa · Many elements of Descartes' philosophy have precedents in late Aristotelianism, the revived Stoicism of the 16th century, or in earlier philosophers like Augustine. In his natural philosophy, he differed from the schools on two major points.
2 giorni fa · The examination of religion as a system of institutions, cultures and practices has been one of the important legacies of a whole corpus of historical writings upon the impact, consequences and nature of the ‘English reformations’ between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
2 giorni fa · As a clear and accessible guide to the main, canonical, figures in British political thought, Burgess’s book is and will be of great value, particularly to students. Yet it will be most useful if read in conjunction with other works, including the excellent European Political Thought 1450–1700.
2 giorni fa · Archbishop Holgate's had become a day school where, in 1764, 24 boys were taught English and Latin. In seven or perhaps eight city parishes there were school masters who were licensed to teach in their own schools.
