The Problem of Being Modern, Or, The German Pursuit of Enlightenment from Leibniz to the French RevolutionWayne State University Press, 1997 - 370 páginas In The Problem of Being Modern, Thomas P. Saine provides a lucid introduction to German thought in the eighteenth century and the struggle of Enlightenment philosophers and writers to come to grips with the profound philosophical and theological implications of new scientific developments since the seventeenth century. He concentrates on those points at which the essential modernity and the secular viewpoint of the Enlightenment conflicted with traditional thought structures rooted in the religious world view that governed attitudes and behavior far into the eighteenth century. |
Contenido
Preface | 9 |
Paradigms of Science and Belief | 25 |
Leibnizs System as Mediation between Science | 61 |
The Necessity and Hopelessness of Theodicies | 87 |
Wolffian Times | 153 |
Lessing and the Search for Truth | 213 |
Fragments of Critiques and Opinions | 232 |
The Search for True Christians | 242 |
Lessings Own Version of Truth | 253 |
Falk and the Education of the Human Race | 267 |
Prussian AntiEnlightenment after Frederick II | 280 |
Bibliography | 341 |
Términos y frases comunes
according Adrast Amelang argument atheist Augsburg Confession Bahrdt become beginning believe Berlin Bible Cartesian Christian religion Christian Wolff Christianity of Reason church claim conception Confession consistory controversy Copernican created creation creatures critical deism deists demonstrate dialogue doctrine dogma earth Edelmann Education eighteenth century Enlightenment Epicurean Epicurus eternal everything evil existence fact faith Falk Frederick William Freemasons freethinker Friedrich German God's Goethe Goeze Gottsched Human Race Ibid ideas infinite intellectual Jesus Johann Kant least Leibniz Lessing Lessing's man's matter Metaphysics miracles modern Monadology moral Moses nature necessary opinion original original sin pastor perfection philosophical poem possible worlds preestablished harmony problem problem of evil proof Protestant Prussian published question rational Reimarus fragments Reimarus's Reinbeck religious edict Schulz Scripture Spinoza spirits teaching theodicy theologians theology things thinkers thought traditional true truth understanding universe virtue Werther Woellner Wolfenbüttel Wolff Wolffian
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