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Fighting a Resurgent Hyper-Positivism in Education is Music to My Ears

, 2015
In this article, I argue that one of the gifts of the Age of Enlightenment, the ability to measure, to experiment, to predict—turned rancid by hyper-positivism—is re-asserting itself globally in the field of education (including music education). I see a
Williams, Hakim Mohandas Amani
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La situation inquiétante des institutions charitables en Provence au siècle des Lumières, actrices principales de l’assistance aux pauvres

Cahiers Jean Moulin
The situation of charitable institutions in Provence during the Age of Enlightenment is worrying. However, as they are the main actors in the assistance to the poor, the latter is at fault.
Hugo Stahl
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The Enlightenment: A Beginner's Guide

, 2010
Blamed for the bloody disasters of the 20th century: Auschwitz, the Gulags, globalisation, Islamic terrorism; heralded as the harbinger of reason, equality, and the end of arbitrary rule, the Enlightenment has been nothing if not divisive.
O'Hara, Kieron
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Sex education and age of sexual enlightenment in western sociology

Социологическая наука и социальная практика, 2016
The article provides an overview of major international studies on the issue of sexual education of children and adolescents. We consider sex education lesson standards in schools of Europe and America, and the subject of these lessons.
Elena V. Shul’gina
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Ethics and Politics in the Postmodern Condition [PDF]

, 2019
In this paper I analyze the postmodern condition with particular reference to the ethical and political spheres. Postmodernism attempts a radical break with all of the major strands of post-Enlightenment thought.
Valentini, Tommaso
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Mirko Danijel Bogdanić (1760-1802), Astronomer, Mathematician, Surveyor and Croatian Educator

Kartografija i Geoinformacije, 2010
This article provides valuable information about the life and work of Mirko Danijel Bogdanić (Bogdanić Imre Dániel) (Virovitica, 1762 – Buda, 1802) who was an astronomer, mathematician, surveyor and the author of a book on world history in Croatian. This
Tatjana Kren
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European Educational Space in the Age of Enlightenment: Discussions on Gender Parameters of Education [PDF]

, 2017
У статті досліджуються гендерні параметри освітнього простору Європи доби Просвітництва в контексті становлення засад системи освіти сучасної цивілізації Заходу. Показано важливість питань освіти і виховання в ідеології просвітників.
Драч, Оксана Олександрівна
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The enlightenment [PDF]

, 2015
The term Enlightenment is used to refer to intellectual and social developments in the 18th century. The underlying force was an increasing belief in the scientific approach to attaining knowledge, as opposed to the medieval reliance on religion and ...
Brysbaert, Marc
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Peace Projects and Cosmopolitanism in the Age of the Enlightenment [PDF]

, 2014
Después de un breve análisis de los principales aspectos del cosmopolitismo en la Ilustración, el artículo estudia la dimensión cosmopolita de los proyectos de paz que se escribieron en ese siglo.
Espinosa Antón, Francisco Javier
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Knowledge of Nature in the Thought of the Enlightenment

Astra Salvensis, 2020
. In nature’s design, the philosophy of the Enlightenment evolves from the selffounding thinking of the Middle Ages, centred around the existence of God, by accepting and overcoming the mathematical model of nature’s conception, to the biological model ...
Purec, Sorin
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