The Age of Reason: 1700-1789Constable, 1960 - 424 Seiten A study of the powerful and often conflicting new ideas which captured the minds of people in the 18th century. |
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... eighteenth - century intellectuals had a pathetic faith in what Professor Lovejoy has called ' the plans of common sensibility and average understanding ' . They were anything but egalitarians , but they did , even in their worst ...
... eighteenth - century intellectuals had a pathetic faith in what Professor Lovejoy has called ' the plans of common sensibility and average understanding ' . They were anything but egalitarians , but they did , even in their worst ...
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... eighteenth century , it must again and again be emphasised , was intellectually dominated by French culture , even as French culture was in itself dominated , guided and disciplined by Paris . Newton may well have been lauded as a god ...
... eighteenth century , it must again and again be emphasised , was intellectually dominated by French culture , even as French culture was in itself dominated , guided and disciplined by Paris . Newton may well have been lauded as a god ...
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... eighteenth century , should also have made so marked and unexpected a contribu- tion to its culture . ( 2 ) The change in the tide of taste and feeling which marks the later decades of the eighteenth century is well illustrated in the ...
... eighteenth century , should also have made so marked and unexpected a contribu- tion to its culture . ( 2 ) The change in the tide of taste and feeling which marks the later decades of the eighteenth century is well illustrated in the ...
Inhalt
RATIONALISM PIERRE BAYLE | 18 |
SETTING SUN LOUIS XIV 17001715 | 37 |
THE EMERGENCE OF MUSCOVY | 54 |
Urheberrecht | |
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