The Age Of Enlightenment
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Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment
The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human. This collection of essays traces the concept of ‘humanity’ through revolutionary politics, feminist biography, portraiture, explorer narratives, libertine and Orientalist fiction, the philosophy of conversation and musicology.
Interpretation of Law in the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Yasutomo Morigiwa
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2011-06-29
A collaboration of leading historians of European law and philosophers of law and politics identifying and explaining the practice of interpretation of law in the 18th century. The goal: establishing the actual practice in the Age of Enlightenment, and explaining why this was the case. The ideology of the Age was that law, i.e., the will of the sovereign, can be explicitly and appropriately stated, thus making interpretation redundant. However, the reality was that in the 18th century, there was no one leading source of national law that would be the object of interpretation. Instead, there was a plurality of sources of law: the Roman Law, local customary law, and the royal ordinance. However, in deciding a case in a court of law, the law must speak with one voice. Hence, interpretation to unify the norms was inevitable. What was the process? What role did justification in terms of reason, the hallmark of the Enlightenment, play? These are some of the questions addressed.
Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment
Author: John Gascoigne
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2002-07-18
This book traces the relationship between Anglicanism and science in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cambridge.