Author: Vicesimus Knox
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Elegant Epistles: Being a Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons, and for General Entertainment, from Cicero, Pliny, Sydney ... With an Appendix, Containing Letters from Sevigné, Balzac, Maintenon, &c. ... [Written by Vicesimus Knox]
Elegant Epistles
Author: Vicesimus Knox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 873
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 873
Book Description
Elegant Epistles
Elegant Epistles, Or, a Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters
Author: Vicesimus Knox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 914
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 914
Book Description
The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture
Author: Louis Dupre
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133685
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The prestige of the Enlightenment has declined in recent years. Many consider its thinking abstract, its art and poetry uninspiring, and the assertion that it introduced a new age of freedom and progress after centuries of darkness and superstition presumptuous. In this book, an eminent scholar of modern culture shows that the Enlightenment was a more complex phenomenon than most of its detractors and advocates assume. It includes rationalist as well as antirationalist tendencies, a critique of traditional morality and religion as well as an attempt to establish them on new foundations, even the beginning of a moral renewal and a spiritual revival. The Enlightenment’s critique of tradition was a necessary consequence of the fundamental modern principle that we humans are solely responsible for the course of history. Hence we can accept no belief, no authority, no institutions that are not in some way justified. This foundation, for better or for worse, determined the course of the following centuries. Despite contemporary reactions against it, the Enlightenment continues to shape our own time and still distinguishes Western culture from any other.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133685
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The prestige of the Enlightenment has declined in recent years. Many consider its thinking abstract, its art and poetry uninspiring, and the assertion that it introduced a new age of freedom and progress after centuries of darkness and superstition presumptuous. In this book, an eminent scholar of modern culture shows that the Enlightenment was a more complex phenomenon than most of its detractors and advocates assume. It includes rationalist as well as antirationalist tendencies, a critique of traditional morality and religion as well as an attempt to establish them on new foundations, even the beginning of a moral renewal and a spiritual revival. The Enlightenment’s critique of tradition was a necessary consequence of the fundamental modern principle that we humans are solely responsible for the course of history. Hence we can accept no belief, no authority, no institutions that are not in some way justified. This foundation, for better or for worse, determined the course of the following centuries. Despite contemporary reactions against it, the Enlightenment continues to shape our own time and still distinguishes Western culture from any other.
Elegant Epistles
Author: Vicesimus Knox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Elegant Epistles: Being a Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons, and for General Entertainment ...[ The Compiler Identified in the Advertisement as Vicesimus Knox]. A New Edition, Improved and Enlarged
ELEGANT EPISTLES
Author: Vicesimus 1752-1821 Knox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781362013464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781362013464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Elegant Epistles: or, a Copious collection of familiar and amusing letters, etc. [Compiled by Vicesimus Knox.]
Elegant Epistles: Or, A Copious Collection of Familiar and Amusing Letters,
Author: Vicesimus Knox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description