A revolution of the mind : radical enlightenment and the intellectual origins of modern democracy /

• Main Author: Israel, Jonathan (Jonathan Irvine), 1946- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.
• Subjects: Δημοκρατία > Ιστορία > 18ος αιώνας.; Πολιτική επιστήμη > Ευρώπη > Ιστορία > 18ος αι.; Διαφωτισμός > Ιστορία

Table of Contents:

• Progress and the Enlightenment's two conflicting ways of improving the world
• Democracy or social hierarchy? : the political rift
• The problem of equality and inequality : the rise of economics
• The Enlightenment's critique of war and the quest for "perpetual peace"
• Two kinds of moral philosophy in conflict
• Voltaire versus Spinoza : the Enlightenment as a basic duality of philosophical systems
• Conclusion.