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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Gottlieb, Anthony
Titre(s) : The dream of enlightenment [Texte imprimé] : the rise of modern philosophy / Anthony Gottlieb
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Penguin books, cop. 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-301 p.) ; 25 cm
Comprend : The Kingdome of darknesse ; Chronological chart ; Starting afresh : Descartes
; The monster of Malmesbury : Hobbes ; A breeze of the future : Spinoza ; Philosophy
for the British : Locke ; An interlude on a comet : Bayle ; The best of all possible
compromises : Leibniz ; A treatise of animal nature : Hume ; What has the Enlightenment
ever done for us? : Voltaire, Rousseau, and the Philosophes.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 245-279. Index
"Western philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just
two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of
Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The Dream of Reason, Anthony
Gottlieb documented the first burst, which came in the Athens of Socrates, Plato,
and Aristotle. Now, in his sequel, The Dream of Enlightenment, Gottlieb expertly navigates
a second great explosion of thought, taking us to northern Europe in the wake of its
wars of religion and the rise of Galilean science. In a relatively short period--from
the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution--Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke,
Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story
and that of the birth of modern philosophy. As Gottlieb explains, all these men were
amateurs: none had much to do with any university. They tried to fathom the implications
of the new science and of religious upheaval, which led them to question traditional
teachings and attitudes. What does the advance of science entail for our understanding
of ourselves and for our ideas of God? How should a government deal with religious
diversity--and what, actually, is government for? Such questions remain our questions,
which is why Descartes, Hobbes, and the others are still pondered today"--Dust jacket
flap
Sujet(s) : Mouvement des Lumières
Philosophie moderne
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780871404435. - ISBN 0871404435 (rel.)
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