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Pages : 20
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Catalogue de porcelaines et de faïences anciennes, d'objets d'art et de curiosité, cabinet en laque de Chine, bronzes, cristaux de roche, tableaux, etc., appartenant à M. de S***...
Author: Catalogue des objets d'art et de curiosité, porcelaines de la Chine, du Japon et de Saxe, faïences de Delft et autres ... meubles en bois de rose, tapisseries & étoffes, dont la vente aura lieu Hotel Drouot ... le vendredi 12 mai 1876 ... par le ministère de Me Charles Pillet, commissaire-priseur ... assisté de M. Charles Mannheim, expert ...
Author: Catalogue des objets d'art et de curiosité, belles porcelaines de la Chine et du Japon, faïences italiennes et autres ... suite de douze belles tapisseries, tapis de Smryrne et étoffes, dont la vente aura lieu Hotel Drouot ... le jeudi 28 décembre 1876 ... par le ministère de Me Charles Pillet, commissaire-priseur ... assisté de M. Charles Mannheim, expert ...
Author: Catalogue d'une précieuse collection d'antiquités et d'objets d'art, porcelaines anciennes de Chine, de Japon, de Sèvres, de Saxe, de Berlin, &a, faïences rares, verroteries de Venise et d'Allemagne, armes orientales et européennes, meubles, tableaux, objets romains, celtiques, &a provenant de feu M. Clément-A.-J. Deltenre, avocat à Enghien et d'autres amateurs, dont la vente publique aura lieu ... 4 avril et jour suivant ... sous la direction de F. Heussner dans sa salle de ventes ... à Bruxelles
Author: On Enlightenment
Author: D. David Charles StovePublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9780765801364
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The idea of enlightenment entails liberty, equality, rationalism, secularism, and the connection between knowledge and human well being. In spite of the setbacks of revolutionary violence, political mass murder, and two world wars, the spread of enlightenment values has become the yardstick by which moral, political, and even scientific advances are measured. Indeed, most critiques of the enlightenment ideal point to failure in implementation rather than principle. By contrast, David Stove, in On Enlightenment, attacks the intellectual roots of enlightenment thought, to define the limitations of its successes and the areas of its likely failures. Stove is not insensitive to the many valuable aspects of enlightenment thought. He champions the use of reason and rationality, and recognizes the falsity of religious claims as well as the importance of individual liberty. What he rejects is the enlightenment's uncritical optimism regarding social progress and its willingness to embrace revolutionary change. What evidence is there that the elimination of superstition will lead to happiness? Or that it is possible to accept Darwinism without Social Darwinism? Or that the enlightenment's liberal, rationalistic outlook will ever lead to the kind of social progress envisioned by its advocates. Despite their best intentions, social reformers who attempt to improve the world as a whole inevitably make things worse. He advocates a conservative "go slow" approach to change, pointing out that today's social structures are so large and complex that any widespread social reform will have innumerable unforeseen consequences. For example, the welfare state may diminish individual initiative, the use of pesticides may increase the food supply while polluting the water supply, the popularizing of university education may lead to a decline in academic standards. Since government has a virtual monopoly on large-scale change, it follows, in Stove's view, that its powers must be limited in order to prevent large-scale damage. Instead, he argues that reforms, when they are to be made at all, must be realistic, local, necessary and never coercive. Writing in the conservative tradition of Edmund Burke with the same passion for clarity and intellectual honesty as George Orwell, David Stove was one of the most precise, articulate, and insightful philosophers of his day. "Never just an academic, Stove was also a prominent, often crotchety, public intellectual of a conservative and, all too often, reactionary bent, many of whose views were extremist on any account, and his targets were many. ... For Stove the important question about a belief is not whether it is extreme or mainstream, but whether it is true, or probable, or has sound evidentiary and/or rational credentials. In this he was surely right." -D. D. Todd, Philosophy in Review David Stove (1927-1994) taught philosophy at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney. He is the author of Against the Idols of the Age and Scientific Irrationalism, both available from Transaction. Andrew Irvine is professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Roger Kimball is managing editor of the New Criterion.
Catalogue des faiences, porcelaines et objets d'art anciens provenant de la collection de J. de Bierset de Hollogne
Author: Annales Fuldenses
Author: Georg Heinrich PertzPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016248884
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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