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  1. Henry Abramson. A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainian and Jews in Revol.Enlightened Absolutism - 2000 - The European Legacy 5 (5):769-772.
     
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  2. After 11 september.Radical Enlightenment & Robert Nozick - 2001 - The Philosophers' Magazine 13.
     
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  3. efforts to organize knowledge, such as Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopedia, were closely connected to the commonplace book,“A Solution to the Multitude of Books: Ephraim Chalmers's Cyclopedia (1728) as 'the Best Book in the Universe,'”.Richard Yeo’S. Suggestion That Enlightenment - 2003 - Journal of the History of Ideas 64 (1):61-72.
     
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    The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory: Religion and Morality in Enlightenment Germany and Scotland.Simon Grote - 2017 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Broad in its geographic scope and yet grounded in original archival research, this book situates the inception of modern aesthetic theory – the philosophical analysis of art and beauty - in theological contexts that are crucial to explaining why it arose. Simon Grote presents seminal aesthetic theories of the German and Scottish Enlightenments as outgrowths of a quintessentially Enlightenment project: the search for a natural 'foundation of morality' and a means of helping naturally self-interested human beings transcend their own (...)
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  5. Critique and crisis: enlightenment and the pathogenesis of modern society.Reinhart Koselleck - 1988 - Cambridge: MIT Press.
    In this way progressive bourgeois philosophy, which seemed to offer the promise of a unified and peaceful world, in fact produced just the opposite.The book ...
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    What is Enlightenment?: Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions.James Schmidt (ed.) - 1996 - University of California Press.
    This collection contains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question, "What is Enlightenment?" The book also includes newly translated and newly written interpretive essays by leading historians and philosophers, which examine the origins of eighteenth-century debate on Enlightenment and explore its significance for the present. In recent years, critics from across the political and philosophical spectrum have condemned the Enlightenment for its complicity with any number of present-day social (...)
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  7. The creative imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism.James Engell - 1981 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    In a work of astonishing intellectual range, James Engell traces the evolution of the creative imagination, from its emergence in British empirical thought through its flowering in Romantic art and literature. The notion of a creative imagination, Engell shows, was the most powerful and important development of the eighteenth century. It grew simultaneously in literature, criticism, philosophy, psychology, religion, and science, attracting such diverse minds as Hobbes, Addison, Gerard, Goethe, Kant, and Coleridge. Indeed, rather than discussing merely the abstract notion (...)
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  8. Vitalizing Nature in the Enlightenment.Peter Hanns Reill - 2006 - Journal of the History of Biology 39 (1):199-203.
    This far-reaching study redraws the intellectual map of the Enlightenment and boldly reassesses the legacy of that highly influential period for us today. Peter Hanns Reill argues that in the middle of the eighteenth century, a major shift occurred in the way Enlightenment thinkers conceived of nature that caused many of them to reject the prevailing doctrine of mechanism and turn to a vitalistic model to account for phenomena in natural history, the life sciences, and chemistry. As he (...)
     
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    The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment: The Art of Invention and the Invention of Art.Stefanie Buchenau - 2013 - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    When, in 1735, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten added a new discipline to the philosophical system, he not only founded modern aesthetics but also contributed to shaping the modern concept of art or 'fine art'. In The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment, Stefanie Buchenau offers a rich analysis and reconstruction of the origins of this new discipline in its wider context of German Enlightenment philosophy. Present-day scholars commonly regard Baumgarten's views as an imperfect prefiguration of Kantian and post-Kantian (...)
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    A ‘monster with human visage’: The orangutan, savagery, and the borders of humanity in the global Enlightenment.Silvia Sebastiani - 2019 - History of the Human Sciences 32 (4):80-99.
    To what extent did the debate on the orangutan contribute to the global Enlightenment? This article focuses on the first 150 years of the introduction, dissection, and public exposition of the so-called ‘orangutan’ in Europe, between the 1630s, when the first specimens arrived in the Netherlands, and the 1770s, when the British debate about slavery and abolitionism reframed the boundaries between the human and animal kingdoms. Physicians, natural historians, antiquarians, philosophers, geographers, lawyers, and merchants all contributed to the knowledge (...)
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    What is Enlightenment?Samuel Fleischacker - 2012 - Routledge.
    "Have the courage to use your own understanding! - that is the motto of enlightenment." - Immanuel Kant The Enlightenment is one of the most important and contested periods in the history of philosophy. The problems it addressed, such as the proper extent of individual freedom and the challenging of tradition, resonate as much today as when they were first debated. Of all philosophers, it is arguably Kant who took such questions most seriously, addressing them above all in (...)
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    Two Concepts of Moderation in the Early Enlightenment.Nicholas Mithen - 2023 - The European Legacy 28 (3):274-293.
    This essay proposes a bifurcation within the concept of moderation in early modern Europe. To draw this out it reconstructs an “encounter” between two citizens of the scholarly Republic of Letters in the years around 1700—Lodovico Antonio Muratori and Jean Le Clerc—and the concept of moderation each maintained. It proposes that the former maintained an ideal of moderation which was “hard” principally about self-regulation, while the latter maintained an ideal of moderation which was “soft” and principally about (religious) toleration. It (...)
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    Kant and the Culture of Enlightenment.Katerina Deligiorgi - 2005 - State University of New York Press.
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    Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson: contesting diversity in the Enlightenment and beyond.Daniel Carey - 2006 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Are human beings linked by a common nature, one that makes them see the world in the same moral way? Or are they fragmented by different cultural practices and values? These fundamental questions of our existence were debated in the Enlightenment by Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson. Daniel Carey provides an important new historical perspective on their discussion. At the same time, he explores the relationship between these founding arguments and contemporary disputes over cultural diversity and multiculturalism. Our own conflicting (...)
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    Immanuel Kant and the “New Enlightenment”. International Conference Report.Arina Startseva & Aleksandr O. Sabanov - 2023 - Kantian Journal 42 (1):132-145.
    The review surveys the main ideas discussed at the international scientific conference “Immanuel Kant and the ‘New Enlightenment’” hosted by the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (IKBFU) in Kaliningrad on 20-22 April 2022. It was organised by IKBFU’s research unit Academia Kantiana with the support of the Petersburg Dialogue Forum. Speakers analysed the theses of the Report to the Club of Rome, Come on! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet (2018), whose authors, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (...)
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    Pre-Critical Kant on the Anthropological Basis of the Enlightenment Project.A. M. Malivskyi & O. I. Yakymchuk - 2022 - Anthropological Measurements of Philosophical Research 22:141-149.
    _Purpose__._ The authors aim to reveal the peculiarity of comprehension of the human phenomenon in the process of referring to the text of "Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime" by the early Immanuel Kant, which is based on the critical rethinking of the Enlightenment position. A prerequisite for its substantial solution is addressing the problem of the place of the "Observations" in the evolution of Kant’s anthropological views. _Theoretical basis__._ Our view of Kant’s legacy is based (...)
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    Guest Editors’ Introduction: New Challenges to the Enlightenment: How Twenty-First-Century Sociotechnological Systems Facilitate Organized Immaturity and How to Counteract It.Andreas Georg Scherer, Cristina Neesham, Dennis Schoeneborn & Markus Scholz - 2023 - Business Ethics Quarterly 33 (3):409-439.
    Organized immaturity, the reduction of individual capacities for public use of reason constrained by sociotechnological systems, constitutes a significant pushback against the project of Enlightenment. Forms of immaturity have long been a concern for philosophers and social theorists, such as Kant, Arendt, Fromm, Marcuse, and Foucault. Recently, Zuboff’s concept of “surveillance capitalism” describes how advancements in digital technologies lead to new, increasingly sophisticated forms of organized immaturity in democratic societies. We discuss how sociotechnological systems initially designed to meet human (...)
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    Fascism as a recurring possibility: Zeev Sternhell, the anti-Enlightenment, and the intellectual history of European modernity.Tommaso Giordani - 2023 - History of European Ideas 49 (5):854-869.
    The article offers an overview and a critical assessment of the work of Zeev Sternhell, focussing on the questions of fascism and of the anti-Enlightenment tradition. It claims that the career of the Israeli historian revolves around the intuition of a history of European modernity marked by a central opposition: that between the Enlightenment and the anti-Enlightenment. I show how the idea is already present in his initial works, and argue that it produces a specific kind of (...)
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    The Authority of Experience: Sensationist Theory in the French Enlightenment.John C. O'Neal - 1996 - Pennsylvania State University Press.
    Sensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean empiricism, was acclaimed by Hippolyte Taine as "the doctrine of the most lucid, methodical, and French minds to have honored France." The first major general study in English of eighteenth-century French sensationism, _The Authority of Experience_ presents the history of a complex set of ideas and explores their important ramifications for literature, education, and moral theory. The study begins by presenting the main ideas of (...)
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    Jonathan Edwards' Philosophy of History: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment.Avihu Zakai - 2001 - Routledge.
    "This book places important themes from the theology of Jonathan Edwards in the context of the Enlightenment. An intellectual history, it makes a bold case that Edwards was not primarily a provincial social figure nor an American literary figure, but a European philosophical figure whose context was the great international movement of modern thought."--Mark Valeri, Union Theological Seminary, Virginia "What most impresses me about this erudite and well-researched book is the deep contextualization of Edwards's philosophy of history within the (...)
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    Enlightenment and Despair: A History of Social Theory.Geoffrey Hawthorn - 1987 - Cambridge University Press.
    Geoffrey Hawthorn has written a substantial conclusion for the second edition of his widely acclaimed critical history of social theory in England, France, Germany and the USA from the eighteenth century onwards. Hawthorn begins with the 'prehistory' of the subject and traces, particularly in the thought of Rousseau, Kant and Hegel, the emergence of certain fundamental distinctions and assumptions whose existence is often overlooked in studies of the traditional 'founding-fathers' of sociology like Marx, Durkheim and Weber.
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    Herder: culture, anthropology and the Enlightenment.David Denby - 2005 - History of the Human Sciences 18 (1):55-76.
    The anthropological sensibility has often been seen as growing out of opposition to Enlightenment universalism. Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) is often cited as an ancestor of modern cultural relativism, in which cultures exist in the plural. This article argues that Herder’s anthropology, and anthropology generally, are more closely related to Enlightenment thought than is generally considered. Herder certainly attacks Enlightenment abstraction, the arrogance of its Eurocentric historical teleology, and argues the case for a proto-hermeneutical approach which emphasizes (...)
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    Utopia and reform in the Enlightenment.Franco Venturi - 1970 - Cambridge [Eng.]: University Press.
    In this detailed study of the republican tradition in the development of the Enlightenment, the central problem of utopia and reform is crystallized in a discussion of the right to punish. Describing the political situation in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the author shows how the old republics in Italy, Poland and Holland stagnated and were unable to survive in the age of absolutism. The Philosophes discussed the ideal of republicanism against this background. They were particularly influenced (...)
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    The New Conflict of the Faculties: Kant, Radical Enlightenment, The Hyper-State, and How to Philosophize During a Pandemic.Robert Hanna - 2021 - Con-Textos Kantianos 1 (13):209-233.
    In this essay, I apply the Kantian interpretation of enlightenment as radical enlightenment to the enterprise of philosophy within the context of our contemporary world-situation, and try to answer this very hard quest ion: “As radically enlightened Kantian philosophers confronted by the double-whammy consisting of what I call The Hyper-State, together with the 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic, what should we dare to think and do?” The very hard problem posed by this very har d question is what I’ll call (...)
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    Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment by Steffen Ducheyne.Mogens Lærke - 2019 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 57 (1):168-170.
    This volume includes fifteen chapters, case studies and broader reflections, on the notion of ‘radical enlightenment,’ separated into three main sections entitled, respectively, “The Big Picture,” “Origins and Fate of the Radical Enlightenment, ca. 1660–1720,” and “The Radical Enlightenment in Europe and the New World after ca. 1720.” It is presented as “the first stand-alone collection of studies in English on the Radical Enlightenment.” It is worth mentioning, however, that two very similar volumes already exist in (...)
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  26. Pantheism reconstructed: Ecotheology as a successor to the judeo-Christian, enlightenment, and postmodernist paradigms.John W. Grula - 2008 - Zygon 43 (1):159-180.
    Abstract.The Judeo-Christian, Enlightenment, and postmodernist paradigms have become intellectually and ethically exhausted. They are obviously failing to provide a conceptual framework conducive to eliminating some of humanity's worst scourges, including war and environmental destruction. This raises the issue of a successor, which necessitates a reexamination of first principles, starting with our concept of God. Pantheism, which is differentiated from panentheism, denies the existence of a transcendent, supernatural creator and instead asserts that God and the universe are one and the (...)
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    Ulysses' reason, nobody's fault: Reason, subjectivity and the critique of enlightenment.Marianna Papastephanou - 2000 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 26 (6):47-59.
    Drawing on notions of alienation, reification and rationalization in their book Dialectic of Enlightenment, Adorno and Horkheimer explored the phenomenon of reason as such concerning the subject and the species, and diagnosed the pathologies of occidental societies. Reason provides the means for a vulnerable being to subordinate nature and serve its desire for self-preservation. However, this reason is instrumental since it objectifies the world and reifies other beings in order to render them manipulable. It is a subjective reason because (...)
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    Evolutionism in the Enlightenment.Peter J. Bowler - 1974 - History of Science 12 (3):159-183.
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    Comment on “The Enlightenment of Chinese Philosophy to the Construction of Contemporary Ecological Civilization”.Yaomin Huang - 2024 - Trans/Form/Ação 47 (4):e02400230.
    Commented article: ZHANG, Ziyu; XU, Xinyue. The enlightenment of Chinese philosophy to the construction of contemporary ecological civilization. Trans/Form/Ação: Unesp journal of philosophy, Marília, v. 47, n. 4, “Eastern thought”, e0240070, 2024. Available at: https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/transformacao/article/view/14658.
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    (1 other version)[Book review] Adam Smith and the virtues of enlightenment[REVIEW]James R. Otteson - 1999 - Ethics 111 (3):634-636.
    Charles Griswold has written a comprehensive philosophical study of Smith's moral and political thought. Griswold sets Smith's work in the context of the Enlightenment and relates it to current discussions in moral and political philosophy. Smith's appropriation as well as criticism of ancient philosophy, and his carefully balanced defence of a liberal and humane moral and political outlook, are also explored. This 1999 book is a major philosophical and historical reassessment of a key figure in the Enlightenment that (...)
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    Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment: Theology, Aesthetics and the Novel.Michael Prince - 1996 - Cambridge University Press.
    This book offers the first full-length study of philosophical dialogue during the English Enlightenment. It explains why important philosophers - Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Berkeley and Hume - and innumerable minor translators, imitators and critics wrote in and about dialogue during the eighteenth century; and why, after Hume, philosophical dialogue either falls out of use or undergoes radical transformation. Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment describes the extended, heavily coded, and often belligerent debate about the nature and proper management of (...)
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  32. 『계몽의 변증법』에 나타난 계몽의 아포리아에 관한 고찰 (A Study on the Aporia of Enlightenment in Dialectic of Enlightenment).Juyong Kim - 2018 - 시대와 철학(Shi Dae Wa Cheol Hak; Epoch and Philosophy) 29 (4):101-131.
    This paper considers the aporia in Dialectic of Enlightenment in two aspects of the self-destruction and self-critique of enlightenment and then emphasizes the dual vision which Horkheimer and Adorno hold on rationality. Firstly, it traces the explanation of the self-destruction of enlightenment so as to make explicit that it results in another form of the aporia, the self-critique of enlightenment. This is followed by formulating the criticism into two aspects, that Horkheimer and Adorno’s aporia leads them (...)
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    Beyond ancient virtues: Civil society and passions in the Scottish Enlightenment.Silvia Sebastiani - 2011 - History of Political Thought 32 (5):821-840.
    Scottish Enlightenment political thought shows permanent tensions between commerce and liberty, passions and interests, wealth and virtue, as a now classical literature has shown. The Scottish literati share the conception that civil society is a product of history, in contrast with barbarism, while giving diverse roles and meanings to passions and virtues. On the one hand, by his criticism of modern commercial politics, Adam Ferguson stood for the classic virtue of antiquity. On the other, David Hume, Adam Smith and (...)
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    Light and Enlightenment: A Study of the Cambridge Platonists and the Dutch Arminians.R. L. Colie - 1959 - Philosophical Review 68 (1):131-132.
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    The Enlightenment and Marxism.Sidney Hook - 1968 - Journal of the History of Ideas 29 (1):93.
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    Situating the Enlightenment in Herder’s philosophy of history.David James - 2022 - Journal of the Philosophy of History 16 (3):247-270.
    Although Herder is critical of the Enlightenment, I show that his philosophy of history commits him to the claim that the age and culture shaped by the Enlightenment in some way makes a distinctive contribution to the development of humanity. Yet this contribution cannot make this age and culture superior to earlier ones, for this would violate Herder’s commitment to the principle that each age and culture ought to be accorded an equal status because of the equal value (...)
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  37. Pt. 2. the age of faith to the age of reason: Lecture 1. Aquinas' summa theologica, the thomist sythesis and its political and social context ; lecture 2. more's utopia, reason and social justice ; lecture 3. Machiavelli's the Prince, political realism, political science, and the renaissance ; lecture 4. Bacon's new organon, the call for a new science, guest lecture / by Alan Kors ; lecture 5. Descartes' epistemology and the mind-body problem ; lecture 6. Hobbes' leviathan, of man, guest lecture / by Dennis Dalton ; lecture 7. Hobbes' leviathan, of the commonwealth, guest lecture by. [REVIEW]Dennis Dalton, Metaphysics Lecture 8Spinoza'S. Ethics, the Path To Salvation, Guest Lecture by Alan Kors Lecture 9the Newtonian Revolution, Lecture 10the Early Enlightenment, Viso'S. New Science of History The Search for the Laws of History, Lecture 11Pascal'S. Pensees & Lecture 12the Philosophy of G. W. Liebniz - 2000 - In Darren Staloff, Louis Markos, Jeremy duQuesnay Adams, Phillip Cary, Dennis Dalton, Alan Charles Kors, Jeremy Shearmur, Robert C. Solomon, Robert Kane, Kathleen Marie Higgins, Mark W. Risjord & Douglas Kellner, Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd edition. Washington DC: The Great Courses.
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    Maturity and education, citizenship and enlightenment: an introduction to Theodor Adorno and Hellmut Becker, 'Education for maturity and responsibility'.Robert French & Jem Thomas - 1999 - History of the Human Sciences 12 (3):1-19.
    In a series of radio broadcasts, one of which is translated for the first time in this issue (pp. 21-34), Adorno and Becker claimed that modern education is profoundly inadequate. Their views on education draw heavily on Kant’s notion of Enlightenment as a process for the development of personal and social maturity and responsibility. As such, education cannot just be a training but must itself be a developmental process which takes into account not only social and political realities but (...)
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    Enlightenment as Concept and Context.James Schmidt - 2014 - Journal of the History of Ideas 75 (4):677-685.
  40. The racial legacy of the Enlightenment in Simón Bolívar's political thought.Sergio Armando Gallegos-Ordorica - 2018 - Critical Philosophy of Race 6 (2):198-215.
    This article offers a critical complement to Diego von Vacano’s differential characterization of Bolívar’s political thought and his understanding of race through a comparative analysis between Bolívar’s views and those of certain philosophers of the Enlightenment. Indeed, von Vacano argues that Bolívar’s contributions to republican theory have been traditionally ignored by the Anglo-American tradition. Though von Vacano is right in underscoring that Bolívar’s political thought deserves more attention since it contains valuable contributions that stand in “contradistinction to prevalent discourses (...)
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    The Enlightenment in practice: academic prize contests and intellectual culture in France, 1670–1794.Mark Curran - 2015 - Intellectual History Review 25 (4):457-459.
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    The Enlightenment and the Evolution of a Language of Signs in France and England.Jules Paul Seigel - 1969 - Journal of the History of Ideas 30 (1):96.
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    Chinese Thought in Early German Enlightenment from Leibniz to Goethe: Abortive Approaches to Transcultural Understanding.Břetislav Horyna - 2023 - Boston: BRILL.
    This book is a philosophical-historical examination of the influence of the knowledge of China imparted by the Jesuits on the thinking of the German Enlightenment in the 18th century.
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    Rousseau, the Age of Enlightenment, and Their Legacies.RobertHG Wokler - 2012 - Princeton University Press.
    Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects for the first time a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau and the legacy of Enlightenment political thought. These essays concern many of the great themes of the age, including liberty, equality and the origins of revolution. But they also address a (...)
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  45. The Birth of the Idea of Perfectibility: From the Enlightenment to Transhumanism.Anastasia Ugleva & Olga Vinogradova - 2019 - Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 62 (4):132-147.
    Starting from the Age of Enlightenment, a person’s ability of self-improvement, or perfectibility, is usually seen as a fundamental human feature. However, this term, introduced into the philosophical vocabulary by J.-J. Rousseau, gradually acquired additional meaning – largely due to the works of N. de Condorcet, T. Malthus and C. Darwin. Owing to perfectibility, human beings are not only able to work on themselves: by improving their abilities, they are also able to change their environment (both social and natural) (...)
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  46. Kant’s Critical Enlightenment: Knowing One’s Own Limits.Ihor Karivets - 2024 - Visnyk of the Lviv University Series Philosophical Sciences 31 (1).
    This article considers the atypical understanding of the Enlightenment and its goals by the famous German philosopher-innovator I. Kant. The author, examining Kant’s attitude to the Enlightenment, argues that the German philosopher understands the Enlightenment not as the establishment of reason and sciences in all spheres of society, but as the self-determination of reason by its own limits of cognition and knowledge through the critique of reason. The goals of the Enlightenment, according to Kant, are moderate, (...)
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    The concept of immortality and the transformation of the idea of enlightenment: I. Kant and J. M. E. McTaggart.Pavlo Kretov - 2024 - Filosofska Dumka (Philosophical Thought) 2:78-90.
    The article examines the constellation of the interpretation of the concept of immortality in the corpora of ideas of I. Kant and J. E. McTaggart in conjunction with modern trends in the transformation of the idea of Enlightenment. The correctness of the applications of the constellation method in relation to the work of I. Kant and J. E. McTaggart is substantiated. The traditional idea of the work of the English philosopher as meaningfully belonging to the Hegelian tradition is problematized, (...)
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    Critical study from the enlightenment thought to the cultural industry: from Adorno’s perspective.Yan Chen - 2024 - Trans/Form/Ação 47 (4):e0240054.
    Resumen: El negocio cultural proporciona a la gente productos culturales estandarizados y estilizados con fines políticos específicos, transformándose en un arma de gobierno ideológica falsa y engañosa que paraliza la conciencia pública y elimina la individualidad, así como en cómplice del gobierno centralizado. La industria cultural sofoca la creatividad cultural y la individualidad humana para apoyar la autoridad capitalista mediante la infiltración ideológica. El objetivo de este artículo es promover la cultura al tiempo que se critica la industria cultural. El (...)
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    Bentham’s law reform association and the continuity of enlightenment in the nineteenth century.Cheng Li - forthcoming - History of European Ideas.
    The Law Reform Association came in the wake of the Catholic Relief Act of April 1829, a period of mounting opinions for further constitutional change. Through the Law Reform Association, Bentham wanted to mobilise people to support the application of his philosophy in Britain and beyond. He argued that the English legal profession had a sinister interest in manipulating other members of society, and that only codification based on utilitarianism would rectify the defects of the common law. By August 1830, (...)
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  50. (1 other version)Vital materialism and the problem of ethics in the Radical Enlightenment.Charles T. Wolfe - 2013 - Philosophica 88 (1):31-70.
    From Hegel to Engels, Sartre and Ruyer (Ruyer, 1933), to name only a few, materialism is viewed as a necropolis, or the metaphysics befitting such an abode; many speak of matter’s crudeness, bruteness, coldness or stupidity. Science or scientism, on this view, reduces the living world to ‘dead matter’, ‘brutish’, ‘mechanical, lifeless matter’, thereby also stripping it of its freedom (Crocker, 1959). Materialism is often wrongly presented as ‘mechanistic materialism’ – with ‘Death of Nature’ echoes of de-humanization and hostility to (...)
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