![]() ![]() What does the advance of science entail for our understanding of ourselves and for our ideas of God? How should a government deal with religious diversity - and what is government actually for? Such questions remain our questions. They tried to fathom the implications of the new science and of religious upheaval, which led them to question traditional teachings and attitudes. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of modern philosophy.Īs Gottlieb explains, all these men were amateurs: none had much to do with any university. In a relatively short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark. ![]() Now, in The Dream of Enlightenment, Gottlieb expertly navigates the second great explosion of thought, taking us to northern Europe in the wake of its wars of religion and the rise of Galilean science. ![]() In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The Dream of Reason, Anthony Gottlieb documented the first of these, which came in the Athens of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Western philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau 'Thank goodness for Gottlieb' Daily Telegraph 'This is a blast of fresh air' Jonathan Clark, TLS ![]()
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