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Spencer, Lloyd

 
9781840467093: Introducing The Enlightenment

Sinopsis

The Enlightenment of the 18th century was a crucial time in human history - a vast moral, scientific and political movement, the work of intellectuals across Europe and the New World, who began to free themselves from despotism, bigotry and superstition and tried to change the world.



Introducing The Enlightenment is a clear and accessible introduction to the leading thinkers of the age, Voltaire, Diderot, Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, who believed that rational endeavour could reveal the secrets of the universe.

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In this text the authors show how leading thinkers of the movement believed that by means of scientific endeavour the essential order of nature could be systematically explained, its processes mastered and all its secrets revealed.

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The book focuses on three of the giants of the Enlightenment - Voltaire, Diderot and Rousseau - but also in the cast are David Hume, Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.

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ISBN 10:  1848311796 ISBN 13:  9781848311794
Editorial: Icon Books, 2010
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