Questions tagged [enlightenment]
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The Enlightenment thinkers and the myth of the noble savage
We can read in Wikipedia (but also elsewhere) that "During the Age of Enlightenment, intellectuals rhetorically used the idealization of indigenous peoples as political criticism of European culture" (Wikipedia, Primitivism).
But as of examples of…
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Problem understanding a paragraph about the Enlightenment project
Could you explain the following sentences especially the last one? I have a problem understanding them:
The Enlightenment project, writes David Harvey in The Condition of Postmodernity, 'took it as axiomatic that there was only one possible answer…
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How did Edward Herbert explain "the problem of evil"?
Edward Herbert, even though he is considered the father of Deism, had thoughts that differ from what we now consider as "Deism" in popular style. For example, he did not deny the existence of revelation. He believed in the existence of heaven and…
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What ideas from Ancient Greece influenced enlightenment philosophers?
It is my understanding that the ideas of Ancient Greece were carried through medieval Europe and had an influence on enlightenment philosophers.
What I wonder is, what were the main (or most important) ideas that carried over from the Ancient period…
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Did Voltaire view Zoroaster as an 'Impostor,' or 'great'?
"The Three Impostors" is an atheistic book that argues Jesus, Moses, and Muhammad are 'Impostors'.
And Voltaire wrote an Epistle against to the atheism of that book.
https://www.whitman.edu/VSA/trois.imposteurs.html
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Did illuminists explicitly say that science would set man free?
Is there any thinker/scientist who ever explicitly say that knowledge/science/technology would liberate man from need, bring universal well-being or paradise on earth?
(Note: H.G. Wells said it about nuclear power in his book The world set free)
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