The Enlightenment: The rise of modern paganismKnopf, 1966 - Enlightenment |
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... pious parents , with a pious brother and sister , 1 : THE USEFUL AND BELOVED PAST 63.
... pious parents , with a pious brother and sister , 1 : THE USEFUL AND BELOVED PAST 63.
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... pious , less encyclopedic , through the cen- turies . Unlike Diderot's Encyclopédie , these Christian compendia were designed more and more openly to lead man toward God . The seventh - century compiler Isidore of Seville still ...
... pious , less encyclopedic , through the cen- turies . Unlike Diderot's Encyclopédie , these Christian compendia were designed more and more openly to lead man toward God . The seventh - century compiler Isidore of Seville still ...
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... pious wish for salvation in the name of a secular salvation disguised as progress ; who denied the immortality of the soul only to substitute the immortality of reputation ; who laughed at religious idolatry but had their own saints ...
... pious wish for salvation in the name of a secular salvation disguised as progress ; who denied the immortality of the soul only to substitute the immortality of reputation ; who laughed at religious idolatry but had their own saints ...
Contents
The Enlightenment in Its World | 3 |
THE APPEAL TO ANTIQUITY | 29 |
From Identification | 59 |
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2nd edn admired ancient antiquity argument atheists Augustine Bayle Bayle's biography called Cassirer chapter Christian Church Cicero civilization claim classical criticism culture d'Alembert Dante David Hume Decline and Fall deism deists Descartes dialogue Diderot Discours divine doctrine edition eighteenth century Encyclopédie English Enlightenment Epicurean Ernst Cassirer erudition especially essay Euvres France French German Gibbon Greek historians Holbach Horace human Humanists Hume's Ibid ideas intellectual Jean-Jacques Rousseau Kant Latin learning Leibniz less Lessing's letters literary literature Lucretius Machiavelli man's medieval ment merely metaphysics Middle Ages mind modern Montesquieu moral myth nature Œuvres Ovid pagan passion Petrarch philo philosophes pious Plato poets polemics political rational reason religion religious Renaissance rhetoric Roman Rome Rousseau Samuel Johnson scholars scientific secular Seneca seventeenth century siècle skepticism social sophes speculation Stoic Stoicism superstition Tacitus theology thinking thought tion truth Vergil vols Voltaire Voltaire's Warburg Wieland writings wrote