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Daily Archives: June 29, 2010
What is the Enlightenment’s Distinctive Feature? And What Contemporary Movement is the Enlightenment’s Most Representative Heir?
Zeev Sternhell, in his recent book, The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition (Yale 2009), offers reason as the Anglo-French Enlightenment’s distinctive feature, and the ingredient that made for its historic break with the past (41): Criticism of the existing political order, but also criticism … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, Daniel Dennett, hume, New Atheists, philosophy, reason, Richard Dawkins, science, the Enlightenment, Voltaire
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Zeev Sternhell on The Enlightenment and Its Enemies
One of the books that I’ve been dropping in and out of this past month is Zeev Sternhell’s The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition (Yale 2009). Sternhell’s book is about 450 pages long, and I’m only 150 pages in, but I can already say that it is … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, burke, humanism, multiculturalism, provincialism, reason, the anti-enlightenment, the Enlightenment, universalism, vico, zeev sternhell
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Truth, Socratic Dialogue, Internet Threads, and Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico was, from 1699-1741, a professor of rhetoric at the University of Naples, and I love the open way that he ended his speech, “On the Study Methods of Our Time” (1709). It represents well the spirit of Italian humanism that … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, dialogue, Giambattista Vico, humanism, openness, reason, rhetoric, socratic dialogue, speech, truth, vulnerability
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