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29 Mar 2002
TL;DR: Culverwell's Discourse as mentioned in this paper examines the relationship between faith and reason, and forms one of the first attempts in English Protestantism to stress the role of reason in ethics and to develop a doctrine of natural law.
Abstract: This collection of 17th century sermons examines the relationship between faith and reason, and forms one of the first attempts in English Protestantism to stress the role of reason in ethics and to develop a doctrine of natural law. Nathaniel Culverwell is considered one of the principal scholars of the seventeenth century. This collection of sermons he delivered in 1645-46, examines the relationship between reason and faith, and forms one of the first attempts in English Protestantism to stress the role of reason in ethics and to develop a doctrine of natural law. Culverwell represents a crucial intersection in the discussion of reason and faith. While providing a link between the Calvinist dependence on faith and grace and the Enlightenment dependence on reason and humanism, Culverwell's Discourse is a picture of the world on the brink of the Enlightenment. The seventeenth century was an era that included the Puritan migration from England to America and the English Civil War. During this period, an understanding of the divine, and the interrelationship between reason and revelation, was often a matter of violent debate. An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature spans several centuries, during which the very nature of knowledge as a product of reason, not the means of revelation, gained ascendancy in Western civilization. This discourse was crucial to the development of a theoretical grounding for individual challenges to established authorities, both political and ecclesiastical, and thus to the development of modern theories of liberty and responsibility.
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01 Dec 2008
TL;DR: Nesbitt as discussed by the authors argues that the Haitian Revolution was the first modern state to implement human rights universally and unconditionally, and that universal emancipation was a fundamental event of modern history, both in the context of the Age of Enlightenment and in contemporary political philosophy.
Abstract: Unlike the American and French Revolutions, the Haitian Revolution was the first in a modern state to implement human rights universally and unconditionally. Going well beyond the selective emancipation of white adult male property owners, the Haitian Revolution is of vital importance, Nick Nesbitt argues, in thinking today about the urgent problems of social justice, human rights, imperialism, torture, and, above all, human freedom.Combining archival research, political philosophy, and intellectual history, Nesbitt explores this fundamental event of modern history - the invention of universal emancipation - both in the context of the Age of Enlightenment (Spinoza, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel) and in relation to certain key figures (Ranciere, Laclau, Habermas) and trends (such as the turn to ethics, human rights, and universalism) in contemporary political philosophy. In doing so, he elucidates the theoretical implications of Haiti's revolution both for the eighteenth century and for the twenty-first century. "Universal Emancipation" will be of interest not only to scholars and students of the Haitian Revolution and postcolonial francophone studies but also to readers interested in critical theory and its relation to history and political science.
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01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: Baker and Reill as mentioned in this paper discuss the genealogy of cultural conflict in the United States and the continuity between the Enlightenment and postmodernism, and the question of what is enlightenment.
Abstract: Introduction Keith Michael Baker and Peter Hanns Reill Part I. Enlightenment or Postmodernity? 1. The enlightenment and the genealogy of cultural conflict in the United States David A. Hollinger 2. The continuity between the Enlightenment and 'postmodernism' Richard Rorty Part II. Critical Confrontations: 3. The historicist enlightenment Jonathan Knudsen 4. Heidegger and the critique of reason Hans Sluga 5. 'A bright clear mirror' Cassirer's The Philosophy of Enlightenment Johnson Kent Wright 6. Critique and government: Michael Foucault and the question 'what is enlightenment' Michael Meranze Part III. A Postmodern Enlightenment? 7. Enlightenment fears, fears of enlightenment Lorraine Daston 8. Difference: an enlightenment concept Dena Goodman 8. Enlightenment as conversation Lawrence E. Klein Notes Index.
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