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Soviet Power Plus Rationalization of the Whole Country: Creating the Kingdom of Reason

RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2022
The correlation between the categories of rational and irrational in the philosophy of the Enlightenment and classical Marxism, which found its embodiment in Russia in the form of Bolshevism (Leninism), is studied.
Olga F. Rusakova, Vasiliy M. Rusakov
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Hooke's figurations: a figural drawing attributed to Robert Hooke [PDF]

, 2010
The experimental philosopher Robert Hooke (1635–1703) is known to have apprenticed to the leading painter Peter Lely on his first arrival in London in the late 1640s.
Hunter, Matthew C.
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2. A Complete Atheist

Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, 2021
Jean Meslier, a largely forgotten figure of the history of political thought, is a radical thinker of the Enlightenment, and one who best illustrates Israel’s thesis about the period. This article, which proposes to set Meslier’s work in his intellectual
Charles Devellennes
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Digital Humanities in the Memory Institution: The Challenges of Encoding Sir Hans Sloane’s Early Modern Catalogues of His Collections

Open Library of Humanities, 2019
Catalogues are the core documents of museum structure and meaning. Yet no significant computational analysis has been made of how catalogues from the early modern period are constructed or of the way their structure and content relate to the world from ...
Alexandra Ortolja-Baird, Julianne Nyhan, Kim Sloan, Martha Fleming, Victoria Pickering   +4 more
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From metaphysical principles to dynamical laws [PDF]

, 2022
My thesis in this paper is: the modern concept of laws of motion—qua dynamical laws—emerges in 18th-century mechanics. The driving factor for it was the need to extend mechanics beyond the centroid theories of the late-1600s.
Stan, Marius
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Women’s enlightenment and early antenatal care initiation are determining factors for the use of eight or more antenatal visits in Benin: further analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey

Journal of Egyptian Public Health Association, 2020
Background Within the continuum of reproductive health care, antenatal care (ANC) provides a platform for vital health care functions, such as disease prevention, health promotion, screening, and diagnosis.
Michael Ekholuenetale, CHIMEZIE IGWEGBE NZOPUTAM, A. Barrow, A. Onikan   +3 more
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Enlightenment on the Spirit-Altar: Eschatology and Restoration of Morality at the King Kwan Shrine in Fin de siècle Seoul

Religions, 2020
The period from the Treaty of Kanghwa (1876) until the fall of the Korean Empire (1897–1910) is commonly characterized as a period of kaehwa—Enlightenment—in which the Chosŏn state strived to reform and modernize.
Jihyun Kim
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The Enlightenment: A century on its way to multiculturalism

Approaching Religion, 2011
This essay brings out the cultural encounters which characterise the Enlightenment and the contemporary situation. The Enlightenment was an era when cultural encounters were on the rise, but it was also a time when racist attitudes were acceptable.
Virpi Luoma
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Early conservative critique of the enlightenment [PDF]

Godisnjak Fakulteta politickih nauka, 2015
Analyzing its relationship to reason, tradition, social organization and other key moments of disagreement, the article exposes how the early post-revolutionary Conservatism criticizing the Enlightenment and, at the same time, articulate their own learning.
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FROM SACRED HISTORY TO THE HISTORY OF RELIGION: PAGANISM, JUDAISM, AND CHRISTIANITY IN EUROPEAN HISTORIOGRAPHY FROM REFORMATION TO ‘ENLIGHTENMENT’ [PDF]

, 2012
This essay is a critical historiographical overview of the recent literature on the writing of sacred history (history of the biblical Jews and early Christians) and history of religion in early modern Europe.
Levitin, Dmitri
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