Before Enlightenment

Author : Han F. Vermeulen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803277380

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Before Boas by Han F. Vermeulen Pdf

The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology's academic origins to present a groundbreaking study that reveals how ethnography and ethnology originated during the eighteenth rather than the nineteenth century, developing parallel to anthropology, or the "natural history of man." Han F. Vermeulen explores primary and secondary sources from Russia, Germany, Austria, the United States, the Netherlands, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, and Great Britain in tracing how "ethnography" originated as field research by German-speaking historians and naturalists in Siberia (Russia) during the 1730s and 1740s, was generalized as "ethnology" by scholars in Göttingen (Germany) and Vienna (Austria) during the 1770s and 1780s, and was subsequently adopted by researchers in other countries. Before Boas argues that anthropology and ethnology were separate sciences during the Age of Reason, studying racial and ethnic diversity, respectively. Ethnography and ethnology focused not on "other" cultures but on all peoples of all eras. Following G. W. Leibniz, researchers in these fields categorized peoples primarily according to their languages. Franz Boas professionalized the holistic study of anthropology from the 1880s into the twentieth century.

Author : John Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139448079

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The Case for The Enlightenment by John Robertson Pdf

An interesting and ambitious comparative study of the emergence of Enlightenment in Scotland and Naples. Challenging the tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe into multiple Enlightenments, John Robertson demonstrates the extent to which thinkers in two societies at the opposite ends of Europe shared common intellectual preoccupations.

Author : Roger Kenneth French
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521007615

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Medicine Before Science by Roger Kenneth French Pdf

An introductory history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth century.

Author : Timothy Kircher
Publisher : Brill's Studies in Intellectua
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9004442693

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Before Enlightenment by Timothy Kircher Pdf

In Before Enlightenment: Play and Illusion in Renaissance Humanism, Timothy Kircher argues for new ways of appreciating Renaissance humanist philosophy. Literary qualities - tone, voice, persona, style, imagery - composed a core of their philosophizing, so that play and illusion, as well as rational certainty, formed pre-Enlightenment ideas about knowledge, ethics, and metaphysics.0Before Enlightenment takes issue with the long-standing view of humanism's philosophical mediocrity. It shows new features of Renaissance culture that help explain the origins not only of Enlightenment rationalists, but also of early modern novelists and essayists. If humanist writings promoted objective knowledge based on reason's supremacy over emotion, they also showed awareness of one's place and play in the world. The animal rationale is also the homo ludens.

Author : Kazuaki Tanahashi
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781570625701

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Enlightenment Unfolds by Kazuaki Tanahashi Pdf

Enlightenment Unfolds is a sequel to Kaz Tanahashi's previous collection, Moon in a Dewdrop, which has become a primary source on Dogen for Western Zen students. Dogen Zenji (1200-1253) is unquestionably the most significant religious figure in Japanese history. Founder of the Soto school of Zen (which emphasizes the practice of zazen or sitting meditation), he was a prolific writer whose works have remained popular for six hundred years. Enlightenment Unfolds presents even more of the incisive and inspiring writings of this seminal figure, focusing on essays from his great life work, Treasury of the True Dharma Eye , as well as poems, talks, and correspondence, much of which appears here in English for the first time. Tanahashi has brought together his own translations of Dogen with those of some of the most respected Zen teachers and writers of our own day, including Reb Anderson, Edward Espe Brown, Norman Fisher, Gil Fronsdal, Blanche Hartman, Jane Hirschfield, Daniel Leighton, Alan Senauke, Katherine Thanas, Mel Weitzman, and Michael Wenger.

Author : Milan Zafirovski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441973870

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The Enlightenment and Its Effects on Modern Society by Milan Zafirovski Pdf

The Enlightenment of the late 17th and 18th century is characterized by an emphasis on reason and empiricism . As a major shaping philosophy of Western culture, it had a historical impact on the religious, cultural, academic, and social institutions of 18th century Europe. In this compelling volume, the author explores the lasting impact of Enlightenment thinking on modern Western societies and other democracies. With an interdisciplinary, comparative-historical approach this volume explores the impact of Enlightenment ideals such as liberty, equality, and social justice on current social institutions. Combining sociological theory with concrete examples, the author provides a unique framework for understanding modern cultural development, including a picture of how it would look without this Enlightenment basis. This work provides a multi-faceted approach, including: an historical overview, analysis of the Enlightenment’s influence on modern democratic societies, modern culture, political science, civil society and the economy, as well as exploring the counter-Enlightenment, Post-Enlightenment, and Neo-Enlightenment philosophies.

Author : Robert E. Carter
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 079145018X

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Encounter with Enlightenment by Robert E. Carter Pdf

Examines the influence of Shintoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism on Japanese ethics, with implications for our understanding of various social, economic, and environmental problems.

Author : Dan Edelstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226184500

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The Enlightenment by Dan Edelstein Pdf

What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of “the Enlightenment” first emerged, Edelstein departs from genealogies that trace it back to political and philosophical developments in England and the Dutch Republic. According to Edelstein, by the 1720s scholars and authors in France were already employing a constellation of terms—such as l’esprit philosophique—to describe what we would today call the Enlightenment. But Edelstein argues that it was within the French Academies, and in the context of the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns, that the key definition, concepts, and historical narratives of the Enlightenment were crafted. A necessary corrective to many of our contemporary ideas about the Enlightenment, Edelstein’s book turns conventional thinking about the period on its head. Concise, clear, and contrarian, The Enlightenment will be welcomed by all teachers and students of the period.

Author : Taizan Maezumi,Bernie Glassman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780861713141

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The Hazy Moon of Enlightenment by Taizan Maezumi,Bernie Glassman Pdf

After three decades, Taizan Maezumi and Bernie Glassman's On Zen Practice remains the essential Zen primer, offering insight into every aspect of training. Hazy Moon of Enlightenment, the second volume of their classic On Zen Practice series, takes readers to the next level.

Author : The Supreme Master Ching Hai
Publisher : The Supreme Master Ching Hai Publishing Co Ltd.
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781886544550

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The Key of Immediate Enlightenment by The Supreme Master Ching Hai Pdf

A 5th collection of talks and lectures given by The Supreme Master Ching Hai on the topic of how to achieve Enlightenment and much more.

Author : Colin McMorran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798712135448

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No Path to Enlightenment by Colin McMorran Pdf

The illusion of the Self is the belief that you are your thoughts, in other words, the personal identification with the voice in your head, when in reality you are the awareness beneath that constant mind chatter. Noticing the thoughts rather than attaching to them may seem a subtle change in perspective, but in fact, it is a huge paradigm shift. Once you have taken a step back from your thoughts by not attaching to them, they become like clouds passing across a clear sky. You will notice the interesting patterns and shapes they form as they float by, coming from nothing and returning to nothing, but they cannot touch the background perfection of the azure blue stillness, the Absolute that holds all. This book aims to liberate you from your thoughts by revealing you are a slave to them. A new way of perceiving life will open up to you and you will be free to experience the world as it is, as opposed to how it has been created through your conditioning and sustained by the illusionary Self. This is, in the truest sense of the word, freedom - freedom from your ingrained thought patterns, freedom from the defensive ego, freedom from the constraint of being what you think you should be and freedom from anxiety, fear, guilt and regret. Get your copy today by clicking the 'Buy Now' button

Author : George Sebastian Rousseau
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 0719035066

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Enlightenment Borders by George Sebastian Rousseau Pdf

Author : George Sebastian Rousseau
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 0719030722

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Enlightenment Crossings by George Sebastian Rousseau Pdf

Author : Kelsey Jackson-Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198809692

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The First Scottish Enlightenment by Kelsey Jackson-Williams Pdf

Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully realised precursor to the era of Hume and Smith, at worst, a period of superstition and religious bigotry. This is the first book-length study to systematically challenge that notion. Instead, it argues that the era between approximately 1680 and 1745 was a 'First' Scottish Enlightenment, part of the continent-wide phenomenon of early Enlightenment and led by the Jacobites, Episcopalians, and Catholics of north-eastern Scotland. It makes this argument through an intensive study of the dramatic changes in historiographical practice which took place in Scotland during this era, showing how the documentary scholarship of Jean Mabillon and the Maurists was eagerly received and rapidly developed in Scottish historical circles, resulting in the wholesale demolition of the older, Humanist myths of Scottish origins and their replacement with the foundations of our modern understanding of early Scottish history. This volume accordingly challenges many of the truisms surrounding seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish history, pushing back against notions of pre-Enlightenment Scotland as backward, insular, and intellectually impoverished and mapping a richly polymathic, erudite, and transnational web of scholars, readers, and polemicists. It highlights the enduring cultural links with France and argues for the central importance of Scotland's two principal religious minorities--Episcopalians and Catholics--in the growth of Enlightenment thinking. As such, it makes a major intervention in the intellectual and cultural histories of Scotland, early modern Europe, and the Enlightenment itself.

Author : Timothy Kircher
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004442702

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Before Enlightenment by Timothy Kircher Pdf

The literary qualities of humanists’ writings convey how play and illusion helped form their ideas about knowledge, ethics, and metaphysics. Timothy Kircher argues for new ways of appreciating Renaissance humanist philosophy.