A Revolution of the Mind : Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy /

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Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these id...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Israel, Jonathan, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politische Wissenschaft
Demokratie
Aufklärung
Political science.
Enlightenment.
Democracy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Siecle des Lumieres.
Democracy > History > 18th century.
Political science > Europe > History > 18th century.
Europa
Europe.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Progress and the Enlightenment's two conflicting ways of improving the world
  • Democracy or social hierarchy? : the political rift
  • The problem of equality and inequality : the rise of economics
  • The Enlightenment's critique of war and the quest for "perpetual peace"
  • Two kinds of moral philosophy in conflict
  • Voltaire versus Spinoza : the Enlightenment as a basic duality of philosophical systems
  • Conclusion.

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