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China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought

The European Legacy, 2019
Early Modern Europe depended on Jesuit missionaries for information about China. The priests were the most learned interlocutors between the two continents, in large part because their strategy of ...
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Of Enlightenment and Alaska Early Moderns

Identities, 2010
This article examines transformations of status-capital in the modern history of the Alaska Native Alutiiq. I redevelop Pierre Bourdieu's forms of capital and habitus to analyze how Alutiiq elites stay on course during massive changes in their social structure.
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The Early Enlightenment, Jews, and Bach

The Musical Quarterly, 2011
The question of possible anti-Judaism/anti-Semitism in the music of Bach has been a sensitive issue in Bach scholarship in recent years, especially in the US. I, like many who are conscious of the long tradition of Christian persecution of Jews and the enormity of the Holocaust, was first drawn to this subject by disturbingly powerful performances of ...
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Early Enlightenment Shifts

2019
This chapter focuses on the tensions concerning doctrinal matters between several Committees for Purity of Doctrine of the Church of Scotland and the three Divinity professors John Simson (1667–1740), Archibald Campbell (1691–1756), and William Leechman (1706–85).
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Seventeenth-Century Calvinism and Early Enlightenment Thought

2021
Abstract Analysing a number of interactions between Calvinists and Early Enlightenment philosophers—and the receptions of John Calvin in these—this chapter shows a complex and persistent presence of Calvin and Calvinists in philosophical debates during the early Enlightenment period.
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Form and Function in the Early Enlightenment

Perspectives on Science, 2006
Many physicians, anatomists and natural philosophers engaged in attempts to map the seat of the soul during the so-called Scientific Revolution of the European seventeenth century. The history of these efforts needs to be told in light of the puzzlement bred by today's strides in the neurological sciences. The accounts discussed here, most centrally by
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Comets in the Early Dutch Enlightenment

2003
The seventeenth century in the Netherlands was a period of great change in astronomy. Tabitta van Nouhuys has given an excellent picture of the debate about comets in the Netherlands during the last quarter of the sixteenth century and the first quarter of the seventeenth.
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The Stoic legacy in the early Scottish Enlightenment

1991
Abstract Focuses on Hume’s generally hostile philosophical engagement with the neo-Stoicism that dominated Scottish university life in the early eighteenth century, giving particular attention to the essays ‘The Epicurean’, ‘The Stoic’, ‘The Platonist’, and ‘The Sceptic’.
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Systematic Thought and the Early French Enlightenment

RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA, 2017
The Enlightenment critique of the esprit de système and its tendency towards eclecticism have often been interpreted as symptoms of speculative shallowness. The article analyses the origins of this prejudice, with special reference to the early French Enlightenment (1700-1750).
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The Early Dutch Enlightenment as a Factor in the Wider European Enlightenment

2003
The centrality of the United Provinces in the genesis of the European Enlightenment is perhaps most vividly demonstrated by the far-reaching and enduring impact of the new Bible criticism. An extremely interesting early Enlightenment controversy and one which penetrated almost everywhere by the 1720s, even Spain and Portugal, was the War of the Oracles.
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