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The Enlightenment - The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 (Paperback)
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The Enlightenment - The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 (Paperback)
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'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have'
Literary Review The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods
of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it
remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of
modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom
of thought, scientific thought as an exemplary form of reasoning,
and rationality and evidence-based argument. Others accuse the
Enlightenment of putting forward a scientific rationality which
ignores the complexity and variety of human beings, propagates
shallow atheism, and aims to subjugate nature to so-called
technical progress. Answering the question 'what is Enlightenment?'
Kant famously urged men and women above all to 'have the courage to
use your own understanding'. Robertson shows how the thinkers of
the Enlightenment did just that, seeking a rounded understanding of
humanity in which reason was balanced with emotion and sensibility.
His book goes behind the controversies about the Enlightenment to
return to its original texts and to show that above all it sought
to increase human happiness in this world by promoting scientific
inquiry and reasoned argument. His book overturns many received
opinions - for example, that enlightenment necessarily implied
hostility to religion (though it did challenge the authority
traditionally assumed by the Churches). It is a master-class in
'big picture' history, about one of the foundational epochs of
modern times.
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