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

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

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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Israel, Jonathan,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER I. Progress and the Enlightenment's Two Conflicting Ways of Improving the World
  • CHAPTER II. Democracy or Social Hierarchy? The Political Rift
  • CHAPTER III. The Problem of Equality and Inequality: The Rise of Economics
  • CHAPTER IV. The Enlightenment's Critique of War and the Quest for "Perpetual Peace"
  • CHAPTER V. Two Kinds of Moral Philosophy in Conflict
  • CHAPTER VI. Voltaire versus Spinoza: The Enlightenment as a Basic Duality of Philosophical Systems
  • CHAPTER VII. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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