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China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought
The European Legacy, 2019Early 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 ...
Rebecca Kingston
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The History of Scottish Theology, Volume II, 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).
Christiane Maurer
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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).
Christiane Maurer
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Form and Function in the Early Enlightenment
Perspectives on Science, 2006Many 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
Noga Arikha
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Radical tolerance in early enlightenment Europe
History of European Ideas, 2016Lionel Laborie
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The Populist Voice of the Early Enlightenment
2013The anonymous author of the most outrageous clandestine manuscript of the eighteenth century, Traite des trois imposteurs (c.1710), addressed the capabilities of ordinary people directly: all men could know the truth, but they are duped by vain and ridiculous opinions put forward by “the partisans of these absurdities … if the people would learn into ...
M. Jacob
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Subversive Print in the Early Enlightenment
Conflict and Enlightenment, 2019openaire +2 more sources
Natural Law Theories in the Early Enlightenment
2000This major addition to Ideas in Context examines the development of natural law theories in the early stages of the Enlightenment in Germany and France. T. J. Hochstrasser investigates the influence exercised by theories of natural law from Grotius to Kant, with a comparative analysis of the important intellectual innovations in ethics and political ...
T. Hochstrasser
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The Early Enlightenment roots of Keynes’ probability concept
, 2021In the brief preface to A Treatise on Probability, Keynes states, ‘It may be perceived that I have been greatly influenced by W. E. Johnson, G. E. Moore and Bertrand Russell, that is, by Cambridge, which, with great debts to the writers of Continental ...
F. Aristimuño, Ricardo F. Crespo
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Offshoring the invisible world? American ghosts, witches, and demons in the early enlightenment
, 2021The fierce debate about the reality of spirits and the “Invisible World” which flared up in the 1690’s helped define the early Enlightenment. All sides in this debate—from Spinoza and Balthasar Bekker to John Beaumont and Cotton Mather—refashioned ...
C. Koslofsky
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