Since the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, we have transformed our world.
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Modern thinking is the enlightenment thinking that ended the Dark Ages and ushered in Newtonian science.
The modern practice of total war, Bell argues, was driven by the Enlightenment dream of total peace.
As to whether such disparities should matter, that question has puzzled philosophers at least since the Enlightenment.
That is the best aspect of the Enlightenment tradition, to form a polity that encourages self-government, self-reliance, autonomy.
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Indeed, Romanticism was explicitly and decidedly a revolt against reason, a rejection of the empirical presumption of the Enlightenment.
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The origin of modern automata, though, came during the Enlightenment, inaugurated by French mechanician Jacques de Vaucanson in the 1730s.
All of these are important factors to get right if we are not to cast a shadow on the enlightenment.
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The drift, as sceptics will have detected, is back towards the Enlightenment optimism derided earlier: that all problems are solvable.
As the Enlightenment swept across Europe, many countries banned the practice and people, in general, found it "morally repugnant, " Peters says.
Shapiro details how scholars coming out of the Enlightenment began to rigorously examine the Western canon, tossing aside many long-held myths.
Indeed, much of the thinking behind the Enlightenment, which you credit as inspiring America's revolution, occurred in England during this period.
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He was a man of the Enlightenment, a reader of Adam Smith and John Locke as well as of Voltaire and Rousseau.
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The book became popular during the Enlightenment among political thinkers in Europe and America, including those who drafted the US Constitution in 1787.
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The parting of ways between Europe and China came, in his view, not with the Renaissance or the Enlightenment but with the industrial revolution.
This persistent idea has its origins in the Enlightenment, but was fixed in the public consciousness by two popular works of the Nineteenth Century.
It is reason that will lead us to truth and the pursuit of truth has been the driving force behind progress since the Enlightenment.
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It was the ideas of the Enlightenment, centered here in France, that helped inspire a band of Colonists across the ocean to seek our freedom.
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Shapiro details how scholars coming out of the Enlightenment began to rigorously examine the canon of the West and many long-held myths were tossed aside.
The U.S. was conceived and birthed by men of the Enlightenment.
He believes the Enlightenment is incomplete, betrayed by its self-appointed guardians.
And, with that, the Enlightenment will have reached its necessary end.
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Their leaders were learned and judicious men, a minority whose excellence derived not from popular opinion or emotion but from the Enlightenment and its pro-reason virtues.
One of them considers America the culmination of the Enlightenment, cleaving to a rational philosophy that would indeed exclude religion and its icons from the public square.
Fiercely anti-immigrant, the Freedom Party (PVV), claims to trace its ideological roots back to the ideas of the Enlightenment and to defend them against culturally different newcomers.
Print made possible the Reformation, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment.
Europeans brought the truth of the Enlightenment to the West.
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But it is not Geert Wilders who really is on trial here: it is, rather, that sacred principle of free speech on which democracy and the Enlightenment are born.
The inexorable progress of the Enlightenment, though it has sent devils packing and committed nymphs and sprites to the realms of silliness, has never managed to stamp out angels.
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