Religion and the Enlightenment: From Descartes to KantWestminster John Knox Press, 1 Oca 1997 - 253 sayfa Religion was an integral part of almost everyone's daily life in seventeenth and eighteenth century Western Europe. Yet new philosophical ideas were emerging, ideas that became the foundation of our modern world. This book, designed for classroom use, reveals the roots of Enlightenment thought as well as their results, both positive and negative, with special attention to figures such as Descartes, Pascal, Rousseau, and Kant. |
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Changing Ideals | 1 |
Enlightenment Power and Context | 27 |
René Descartes | 53 |
Blaise Pascal | 75 |
The Distant God of Deism | 99 |
From Scepticism to Atheism | 124 |
Science and Religion | 150 |
JeanJacques Rousseau g | 179 |
Immanuel Kant | 203 |
Conclusion | 229 |
Notes | 235 |
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