A Global Enlightenment
A revisionist history of the idea of progress reveals an unknown story about European engagement with Chinese science.The Enlightenment gave rise not only to new ideas of progress but consequential debates about them. Voltaire could believe that they did; Hegel was convinced that… Celý popis ↓
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A Global Enlightenment
A revisionist history of the idea of progress reveals an unknown story about European engagement with Chinese science.The Enlightenment gave rise not only to new ideas of progress but consequential debates about them. Voltaire could believe that they did; Hegel was convinced that they did not. Did distant times and places have anything to teach the here and now?
Later philosophes rejected it as stuck in the past. Early philosophes praised Chinese philosophy as an enduring model of reason. Seeking to vindicate ancient knowledge, a group of French statesmen and savants began a conversation with the last great scholar of the Jesuit mission to China.
Together, they drew from Chinese learning to challenge the emerging concept of Western advancement.A Global Enlightenment traces this overlooked exchange between China and the West to make compelling claims about the
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- Vanderbes, Jennifer
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