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The idea of enlightenment entails liberty, equality, rationalism, secularism, and the connection between knowledge and human well being. Originating at the time when science and democracy began to push back the forces of superstition and oligarchy in Ancient Greece, it reached its apogee with the post-revolutionary rise of democracy in Britain, France, and America. In spite of the setbacks of revolutionary violence, political mass murder, and two world wars, the spread of enlightenment values has become the yardstick by which moral, political, and even scientific advances are measured. Indeed, most critiques of the enlightenment ideal point to failure in implementation rather than principal. By contrast, David Stove, in On Enlightenment, attacks the intellectual roots of enlightenment thought, to define the limitations of its successes and the areas of its likely failures.

Author Biography:

David Stove (1927-1994) taught philosophy at the University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney. He is the author of Against the Idols of the Age and Scientific Irrationalism, both available from Transaction. Andrew Irvine is professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Roger Kimball is managing editor of the New Criterion.
Release date NZ
November 30th, 2002
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Pages
224
Dimensions
152x229x15
ISBN-13
9780765801364
Product ID
7568865

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