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Modern Enlightenment and the Rule of Reason (Paperback)
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Modern Enlightenment and the Rule of Reason (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy
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The essays in this volume pose the question common usage has
obscured: was ""the Enlightenment"" truly enlightened or
enlightening? Scholarly investigation has sometimes avoided the
question by confining itself to historical particulars of
18th-century Europe. Yet the most visible proponents of the
Enlightenment, the ""philosophers"", insisted that their project
originated a century earlier, in the writings of the first
self-proclaimed modern ""philosophers"". This volume seeks
philosophical clarity of modernity's enlightenment by beginning
with Bacon, Descartes and Hobbes. Consideration of Pascal, Spinoza,
Leibniz, Hume, Roussea, Lessing and Kant - all philosophical
critics, or reformers, of the Enlightenment - furthers the study of
its legacy by displaying its diversity. Finally, the book indicates
the Enlightenment's vitality by outlining ways it continues to hold
philosophical sway in this century. The contributors discuss
several themes pertaining to the ambition of Enlightenment reason:
justice, tradition and authority; the mastery of nature;
metaphysics and scientific method; enlightened and unenlightened
""dogmatism""; the utilitarian revision of the common good and the
commonly true; Christianity and the limits of enlightened theology;
""theodicy""; aesthetics and political rhetoric; myth, history and
human freedom.
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