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Some Factors Influencing Legal Continuity in the Age of Enlightenment

open access: yesУченые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки
In this article, certain factors that influenced legal continuity during the Age of Enlightenment are discussed. The major processes of the period are analyzed, and the importance of legal traditions as the foundation of legal continuity is highlighted ...
A. R. Gubaidullin
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Enlightenment in The Age of Phillis — The Age of Phillis (Roundtable)

open access: yes, 2021
During one of the earliest conversations in our reading group, we spent time consid-ering the title of Jeffers’s collection, The Age of Phillis. For our group primarily comprising teachers and scholars of eighteenth-century British and American litera ...
DeLucia, JoEllen
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Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment

open access: yesCanadian Food Studies, 2020
The current exhibition at the Gardiner Museum, Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Enlightenment, explores how eating, cooking, and dining were reimagined in England and France from the 1650s to the 1790s.
Jennifer OConnor
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Philosophical Musings on the Underbelly of Information Age

open access: yesInformatio, 2021
There is an underbelly of the Age of Information. Its opportunities and promises have been diverted to dubious ends, manipulating the users of information technologies for economic rewards and political power.
Thomas J. Froehlich
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Pedagogical and axiological strategies of enlightenment realism

open access: yesPolítica e Gestão Educacional, 2022
Based on the example of the global movement of enlightenment realism in the second half of the 18th – early 19th centuries, to examine the dynamics of the correlation of didactic (pedagogical) and axiological ideas in the system of the general socio ...
Aleksej Pashkurov
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Testing the Tunnel Effect : comparison, age and happiness in UK and German panels [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In contrast to previous results combining all ages we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s, and negative effects for those over 45. In the BHPS these coefficients are several times the magnitude of own income effects.
Nolan, Michael A.   +14 more
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Lhitage des Lumies: The Enlightenment as an unfinished and morally demanding project

open access: yesApproaching Religion, 2011
The French Enlightenment and the Revolution of 1789 have commonly been seen as forerunners of modern Western European democracies and democratic values such as inalienable human rights, freedom from oppression, equality, religious tolerance, social ...
Charlotta Wolff
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Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz’s Portrait of America in the Age of Enlightenment

open access: yesLanguage, Culture, Politics, 2023
In 1788, a Polish writer and important political figure, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, made a trip to the United States where he spent several years travelling and observing American culture and society. At this time he wrote a collection of memoirs, Travels
Dorota Górnik
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Luxury and the diversity of the Age of Enlightenment

open access: yesApproaching Religion, 2011
Economic thought of the eighteenth century has often been interpreted as a unitary whole, which set down the foundations of modern economics.In this essay, Pietilä discusses how the economic thinking of the era was fragmentary and more diverse than ...
Niklas Pietilä
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Transitions : studies in religion and the age of enlightenment (Editorial Introduction)

open access: yes, 2018
Studies in Religion and the Enlightenment (SRE) is the online continuation of the print journal Religion in the Age of Enlightenment (RAE), formerly published by AMS Press.
Cahill, Samara
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