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 | #4468929 in Books |  1959-09-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x5.25 x.50l, | File type: PDF | 192 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A critical--and dated--analysis|By Ricardo Mio|This book is an intellectual tour-de-force. Carl Becker has a mastery of all the most-influential Enlightenment writers, assesses their ideas with beguiling ease, and quotes them with alacrity. While he examines the writings of the English and Scottish philosophers (particularly Hume), the emphasis of his analysis (or polemic, if

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 fo...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (The Storrs Lectures Series)   |  Carl L. Becker. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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