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The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers
Carl Lotus Becker
Yale University. Mary Cady Tew Fund
出版
Yale University Press
, 1932
主題
History / General
History / Historiography
History / Modern / 18th Century
Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
Philosophy / Religious
ISBN
0300000170
9780300000177
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qYgFAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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 foreword, Johnson Kent Wright looks at the book's continuing relevance within the context of current discussion about the Enlightenment.