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Christianity and enlightenment: An historical survey1
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The history of European ideas: Vol. 1, No. 2, No 2, pp. 103-121 as mentioned in this paper is a good starting point for this survey. But it is incomplete.About:
This article is published in History of European Ideas.The article was published on 1981-01-01. It has received 33 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Enlightenment & Christianity.read more
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The Cambridge history of eighteenth-century political thought
Mark Goldie,Robert Wokler +1 more
TL;DR: The Cambridge History of Political Thought as mentioned in this paper provides a comprehensive overview of the development of western political thought during the European Enlightenment, including Rousseau, Montesquieu and David Hume.
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The early Enlightenment debate on commerce and luxury
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the work of eight important contributors to these debates in France and Britain before 1748, the year of publication of Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, that supplied Saint Lambert with the resources he needed to try to say what luxury actually was.
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Sir Robert Walpole, the Church of England, and the Quakers Tithe Bill of 1736*
TL;DR: The Church of England has received little attention either as an issue or as a force in mid-eighteenth-century politics as discussed by the authors, with the issues dividing the two parties losing both ideological and political significance.
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Uncomfortable mirrors: religion and mimetic violence in contemporary canadian native literature
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Social contract theory and its critics
TL;DR: The social contract theory of political legitimacy, political authority, and political obligation are derived from the consent of the governed, and are the artificial product of the voluntary agreement of free and equal moral agents as discussed by the authors.
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The Atlantic Slave Trade and British Abolition, 1760-1810.
W. E. Minchinton,Roger Anstey +1 more
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Ideas and Their Execution: English Prison Reform
TL;DR: The relationship between John Howard and the Gloucestershire magistrate Sir George Oneiphorus Paul was examined in this article, where Howard made prison reform a national issue, but it was Paul who achieved practical results.