The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 Robertson Ritchie
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 Robertson Ritchie "[Mr. Robertson, armed with a prodigious knowledge of the Enlightenment's literary output, has captured the tone and spirit of…
Specifikacia The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 Robertson Ritchie
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 Robertson Ritchie
"[Mr. Robertson, armed with a prodigious knowledge of the Enlightenment's literary output, has captured the tone and spirit of this milieu." -- Wall Street JournalNow in paperback, a magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the press, of rationality and evidence-based argument. Robertson] is [a] splendid writer, astoundingly versed in European letters and gifted at vividly sketching the views of the "Enlighteners."...
Yet why, over three hundred years after it began, is the Enlightenment so profoundly
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