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1 online resource (xxv, 211 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits
Discusses the historical movement that emphasized the truth through empiricism, and explores the background of Enlightenment and its relation to natural philosophy, church institutions, society, political thought, the state, and the French Revolution, with biographical sketches, excerpts from important documents, and a bibliography.
Historical overview : preliminaries, principles, and preconceptions -- Science and the triumph of reason : Newton, Locke, and a new philosophy -- The philosophes, the church, and Christianity -- The philosophes, political thought, and enlightened despotism -- The alternative vision of Montesquieu and Rousseau.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-203) and index.
Greenwood guides to historic events, 1500-1900