Religion, science and moral philosophy in the Huguenot enlightenment : Jean Henri Samuel Formey and the Berlin Academy /
Religion, Science and Moral Philosophy in the Huguenot Enlightenment makes two significant contributions to existing scholarship on the Enlightenment. Firstly, as an author, journalist, translator and inexhaustible letter writer, the Huguenot pastor and secretary of the Berlin Academy of Science, Sa...
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Liverpool :
Published by Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford,
[2024].
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| Series: | Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ;
2024:02. |
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Table of Contents:
- Formey's concept of philosophy and its relationship to religion
- Formey in the Berlin Huguenot Enlightenment, or how to reconcile the pastor and the philosopher
- Preaching like a philosopher and philosophising like a preacher
- The existence of God and the superiority of metaphysics
- Pre-established harmony and fatalism
- The debate on free will
- Providence, moral duties and optimism
- Natural law, morality and science
- Conclusion: Religious Enlightenment between Calvinism and Wolffianism.