A revolution of the mind : radical enlightenment and the intellectual origins of modern democracy
Progress and the Enlightenment's two conflicting ways of improving the world -- Democracy or social hierarchy? : the political rift -- The problem of equality and inequality : the rise of economics -- The Enlightenment's critique of war and the quest for "perpetual peace" -- Two...
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Format: | Buch |
Sprache: | English |
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Princeton [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press,
2010
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Schlagworte: | Political science Enlightenment Democracy Aufklärung Radikalismus Anfang Demokratie Wert |
Umfang: | XIV, 276 S. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Progress and the enlightenment's two conflicting ways of improving the world
- Democracy or social hierarchy? : the political rift
- The problem of equality and inequality : the rise of economics
- The enlightenment's critique of war and the quest for "perpetual peace"
- Two kinds of moral philosophy in conflict
- Voltaire versus spinoza : the enlightenment as a basic duality of philosophical systems
- Conclusion.