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Author : Charles Vereker
Publisher : Liverpool, U. P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Eighteenth-century Optimism written by Charles Vereker and published by Liverpool, U. P. This book was released on 1967 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin Heydt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108421091
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain written by Colin Heydt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new account of a vital period in the history of ethics, focusing on the content of morality.
Author : Maurizio Valsania
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813931517
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book The Limits of Optimism written by Maurizio Valsania and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Limits of Optimism works to dispel persistent notions about Jefferson’s allegedly paradoxical and sphinx-like quality. Maurizio Valsania shows that Jefferson’s multifaceted character and personality are to a large extent the logical outcome of an anti-metaphysical, enlightened, and humility-oriented approach to reality. That Jefferson’s mind and priorities changed over time and in response to changing circumstances indicates neither incoherence, hypocrisy, nor pathology. Valsania’s reading of Jefferson, the Enlightenment, and negativity helps to make sense of the many paradoxes typically associated with that eighteenth-century thinker. At the same time, it provides a corrective to the common though erroneous equation of Enlightenment thinking with rationalism and shallow optimism.
Author : J. Hick
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230252790
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (527 download)
Download or read book Evil and the God of Love written by J. Hick and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published, Evil and the God of Love instantly became recognized as a modern theological classic, widely viewed as the most important work on the problem of evil to appear in English for more than a generation. Including a foreword by Marilyn McCord Adams, this reissue also contains a new preface by the author.
Author : Edward Kneale Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (639 download)
Download or read book The Decline of Optimism in Eighteenth-century England written by Edward Kneale Williams and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Vereker
Publisher : Liverpool, U. P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Eighteenth-century Optimism written by Charles Vereker and published by Liverpool, U. P. This book was released on 1967 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Vereker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Optimism and Freedom in the Eighteenth Century written by Charles Vereker and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Spadafora
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300046717
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (467 download)
Download or read book The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-century Britain written by David Spadafora and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to every major facet of the British Enlightenment as well as to the economic revolutions of the period. Drawing on hundreds of eighteenth-century books and pamphlets, David Spadafora here provides the most extensive discussion ever written of this prevailing sense of historical optimism.
Author : William Elijah Alderman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Shaftesbury and the Doctrine of Optimism in the Eighteenth Century written by William Elijah Alderman and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sébastien Charles
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400748108
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Scepticism in the Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment, Lumières, Aufklärung written by Sébastien Charles and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Enlightenment has often been portrayed as a dogmatic period on account of the veritable worship of reason and progress that characterized Eighteenth Century thinkers. Even today the philosophes are considered to have been completely dominated in their thinking by an optimism that leads to dogmatism and ultimately rationalism. However, on closer inspection, such a conception seems untenable, not only after careful study of the impact of scepticism on numerous intellectual domains in the period, but also as a result of a better understanding of the character of the Enlightenment. As Giorgio Tonelli has rightly observed: “the Enlightenment was indeed the Age of Reason but one of the main tasks assigned to reason in that age was to set its own boundaries.” Thus, given the growing number of works devoted to the scepticism of Enlightenment thinkers, historians of philosophy have become increasingly aware of the role played by scepticism in the Eighteenth Century, even in those places once thought to be most given to dogmatism, especially Germany. Nevertheless, the deficiencies of current studies of Enlightenment scepticism are undeniable. In taking up this question in particular, the present volume, which is entirely devoted to the scepticism of the Enlightenment in both its historical and geographical dimensions, seeks to provide readers with a revaluation of the alleged decline of scepticism. At the same time it attempts to resituate the Pyrrhonian heritage within its larger context and to recapture the fundamental issues at stake. The aim is to construct an alternative conception of Enlightenment philosophy, by means of philosophical modernity itself, whose initial stages can be found herein.
Author : Robert B. Louden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019975571X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The World We Want written by Robert B. Louden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World We Want compares the future world that Enlightenment intellectuals had hoped for with our own world at present. In what respects do the two worlds differ, and why are they so different? To what extent is and isn't our world the world they wanted, and to what extent do we today still want their world? Unlike previous philosophical critiques and defenses of the Enlightenment, the present study focuses extensively on the relevant historical and empirical record first, by examining carefully what kind of future Enlightenment intellectuals actually hoped for; second, by tracking the different legacies of their central ideals over the past two centuries. But in addition to documenting the significant gap that still exists between Enlightenment ideals and current realities, the author also attempts to show why the ideals of the Enlightenment still elude us. What does our own experience tell us about the appropriateness of these ideals? Which Enlightenment ideals do not fit with human nature? Why is meaningful support for these ideals, particularly within the US, so weak at present? Which of the means that Enlightenment intellectuals advocated for realizing their ideals are inefficacious? Which of their ideals have devolved into distorted versions of themselves when attempts have been made to realize them? How and why, after more than two centuries, have we still failed to realize the most significant Enlightenment ideals? In short, what is dead and what is living in these ideals?
Author : Hernán D. Caro
Publisher : Brill's Studies in Intellectua
ISBN 13 : 9789004218468
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (184 download)
Download or read book The Best of All Possible Worlds? written by Hernán D. Caro and published by Brill's Studies in Intellectua. This book was released on 2020 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- The Theodicy and Leibniz's philosophical optimism -- Eternal truths, the choice of the best, and the almighty reality of sin : Budde and Knoerr's Doctrinae orthodoxae de origine mali (1712) -- A Jesuit attacks : Louis-Bertrand Castel's review of the Theodicy in the Journal de Trévoux (1737) -- Banning the best world, God's (supposed) freedom, and the principle of sufficient reason : Christian August Crusius's criticism of optimism (1745) -- The prize-contest on optimism of the Prussian Academy of Sciences : Adolf Friedrich Reinhard's Examen de l'optimisme (1755) -- Early counter-optimism : main arguments and the nature of the conflict -- Conclusions.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0812972015
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Candide written by Voltaire and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this splendid new translation of Voltaire’s satiric masterpiece, all the celebrated wit, irony, and trenchant social commentary of one of the great works of the Enlightenment is restored and refreshed. Voltaire may have cast a jaundiced eye on eighteenth-century Europe–a place that was definitely not the “best of all possible worlds.” But amid its decadent society, despotic rulers, civil and religious wars, and other ills, Voltaire found a mother lode of comic material. And this is why Peter Constantine’s thoughtful translation is such a pleasure, presenting all the book’s subtlety and ribald joys precisely as Voltaire had intended. The globe-trotting misadventures of the youthful Candide; his tutor, Dr. Pangloss; Martin, and the exceptionally trouble-prone object of Candide’s affections, Cunégonde, as they brave exile, destitution, cannibals, and numerous deprivation, provoke both belly laughs and deep contemplation about the roles of hope and suffering in human life. The transformation of Candide’s outlook from panglossian optimism to realism neatly lays out Voltaire’s philosophy–that even in Utopia, life is less about happiness than survival–but not before providing us with one of literature’s great and rare pleasures.
Author : Francois Voltaire
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101549742
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Candide written by Francois Voltaire and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-10-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this "optimism" concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the "all for the best" approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters, not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only international acclaim, but two stays in the Bastille, flogging, and exile, Voltaire knew personally what suffering entailed. In Candide he whisks his young hero and friends through a ludicrous variety of tortures, tragedies, and a reversal of fortune, in the company of Pangloss, a "metaphysico-theologo-comolo-nigologist" of unflinching optimism. The result is one of the glories of eighteenth-century satire. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Voltaire Voltaire
Publisher : Xist Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1681959526
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Candide written by Voltaire Voltaire and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candide by Voltaire from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Do you believe,' said Candide, 'that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?' Do you believe,' said Martin, 'that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?” ― Voltaire, Candide Candide is a young man who is raised in wealth to be an optimist but when he is forced to make his own way in the world, his assumptions and outlook are challenged.
Author : Mark Goldie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521374224
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought written by Mark Goldie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0553897993
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (538 download)
Download or read book Candide written by Voltaire and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust at the philosophical optimism that proclaims that all disaster and human suffering is part of a benevolent cosmic plan. Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher's immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that -- contrary to the teachings of his distringuished tutor Dr. Pangloss -- all is not always for the best. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, Candide has become Voltaire's most celebrated work.
