The Age of Enlightenment is a period when humans replaced their subservience to nature with the confidence to understand and ultimately control the world around them. This talk discussed Copernicus’s observations of planetary motion and the independent development of calculus by Newton and Leibniz. Haskell also showed how these developments led to a new principle of epistemology that gave rise to the power of reason and dignity of humans, which triumphed during this age
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At the beginning of the 18th century a distinctly modern vision of life was emerging: by its close, ...
The well-known Kantian passage on misology in the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals starts ma...
This paper explores the influence of Isaac Newton"s astronomy on European culture. More than any oth...
The book tells a new history of epistemology from the Renaissance to Newton through the impact of Ar...
Although many historical narratives often describe the eighteenth century as an unalloyed \u27Age of...
The present paper aims at reconsidering the history of human knowledge, contrasting scientific epist...
This book deals with a fascinating and rich episode in the history of philosophy, one from which tho...
If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred,...
T he Enlightenment was a philosophi-cal, intellectual and cultural move-ment of the late 17th centur...
Rationalism of the 17th century has its seamy side in the philosophy of the Enlightenment, whose rel...
The modern order stands upon an intellectual paradox, with far reaching implications both at the lev...
This book argues that the Enlightenment was a golden age for the philosophy of body, and for efforts...
Two great problems of learning confront humanity: learning about the nature of the universe and our ...
Two great problems of learning confront humanity: learning about the nature of the universe and our ...
For over two and a half thousand years the Western intellectual tradition has been dominated by a ph...
At the beginning of the 18th century a distinctly modern vision of life was emerging: by its close, ...
The well-known Kantian passage on misology in the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals starts ma...
This paper explores the influence of Isaac Newton"s astronomy on European culture. More than any oth...