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9780300101508

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers; Second Edition

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300101508

  • ISBN10:

    0300101503

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2003-11-10
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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Summary

Here a distinguished American historian challenges the belief that the eighteenth century was essentially modern in its temper. In crystalline prose Carl Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was, in fact, very far from that, that Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, and Locke were living in a medieval world; and that these philosophers "demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to rebuild it with more up-to-date materials." In a new Foreword, Johnson Kent Wright looks at the book's continuing relevance within the context of current discussion about the Enlightenment.

Author Biography

Carl L. Becker a professor of European history at Cornell University.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Climates of Opinionp. 1
The Laws of Nature and of Nature's Godp. 33
The New History: Philosophy Teaching by Examplep. 71
The Uses of Posterityp. 119
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