The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820This concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Robert Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture. |
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... Human Understanding ( 1690 ) is only the most conspicuous of a series of philosophical texts to place the visual organization of knowledge over the other senses . Strictly speaking , an epistemology of sight has its beginnings in ...
... Human Understanding ( 1690 ) is only the most conspicuous of a series of philosophical texts to place the visual organization of knowledge over the other senses . Strictly speaking , an epistemology of sight has its beginnings in ...
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... human history and places them over a concern for salvation . Universal meanings give way to notions of empirical completeness . The autonomy of reason controls human action . The individual becomes less a soul and more a link between ...
... human history and places them over a concern for salvation . Universal meanings give way to notions of empirical completeness . The autonomy of reason controls human action . The individual becomes less a soul and more a link between ...
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... human improvement is especially clear where order in the motion of the stars presumably figure a predictability in human occurrence . A decade later , the Declaration of Independence will begin with words about the course of human ...
... human improvement is especially clear where order in the motion of the stars presumably figure a predictability in human occurrence . A decade later , the Declaration of Independence will begin with words about the course of human ...
Contents
What Is Enlightenment? Some American Answers | 22 |
Religious Voices | 44 |
Writing the Revolution | 80 |
Copyright | |
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