The Enlightenment, Philanthropy and the Idea of Social Progress in Early Australia: Creating a Happier Race? 9780429818080

The Faith of Reason: The Idea of Progress in the French Enlightenment

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The Faith of Reason: The Idea of Progress in the French Enlightenment 9780231893756

A study of the evolution and relevant social context of philosophical ideas on progress, science, nature, and metaphysic

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The Idea of Progress: History and Society

Whether progress is an illusion or a reality, this recent concept of mankind's is certainly the most universal reli

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History and the Idea of Progress 9781501744679

Additional essays examine the historical and philosophical origins of the idea of history that lies behind today's

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The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment 9780748645336

A definitive exposition of a key idea shaping the world we know today GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:97807486

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The Idea of Progress in America, 1815–1860 9780231894524

Portrays the American faith in progress from 1815-1860 and analyzes the idea of progress in terms of the interests and g

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The Idea of Enlightenment: A Postmortem Study 9781442675957

An exploration of the roots of the contemporary dissatisfaction with the modern Enlightenment. The author argues that th

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The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth-Century Britain 9780300159424

The idea of progress stood at the very center of the intellectual world of eighteenth-century Britain, closely linked to

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Race, Heredity and Civilisation: Human Progress and the Race Problem

Table of contents : Publishers' Foreword. Part I. RACE, HEREDITY AND CIVILISATION. Promoting Talents of Both Races

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The Idea of the Sciences in the French Enlightenment : A Reinterpretation [1 ed.] 9781644530658, 9781644530641

This book traces the development of the idea that the sciences were morally enlightening through an intellectual history

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