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The Faith of Reason : The Idea of Progress in the French Enlightenment / Charles Frankel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1948]Copyright date: ©1948Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780231934480
  • 9780231893756
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. The Philosophic Century -- II. The New Method of Philosophy -- III. The Experimental Physics of the Soul -- IV. Philosophy and Physics -- V. The Insane Idea of Becoming Wholly Reasonable -- VI. The Reign of Reason and Truth -- VII. Custom and Nature -- A Summing Up -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: A study of the evolution and relevant social context of philosophical ideas on progress, science, nature, and metaphysical faith of reason. Specifically examines the views on progress of Descartes and Pascal in the seventeenth century, the views and influences of French philosophers during the eighteenth century Enlightenment, the use of essential elements in the Cartesian ideas of science and progress, and the relationship of science to society and morals. Includes analysis of philosophers such as Diderot, Voltaire, D'Alembert, Turgot, Condillac, Rousseau, Fontenelle, and Condorcet.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. The Philosophic Century -- II. The New Method of Philosophy -- III. The Experimental Physics of the Soul -- IV. Philosophy and Physics -- V. The Insane Idea of Becoming Wholly Reasonable -- VI. The Reign of Reason and Truth -- VII. Custom and Nature -- A Summing Up -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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A study of the evolution and relevant social context of philosophical ideas on progress, science, nature, and metaphysical faith of reason. Specifically examines the views on progress of Descartes and Pascal in the seventeenth century, the views and influences of French philosophers during the eighteenth century Enlightenment, the use of essential elements in the Cartesian ideas of science and progress, and the relationship of science to society and morals. Includes analysis of philosophers such as Diderot, Voltaire, D'Alembert, Turgot, Condillac, Rousseau, Fontenelle, and Condorcet.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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