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Otfried Höffe on Enlightenment - Dictionary of Arguments
Höffe I 259 Enlightenment/Höffe: Four guiding concepts define the epoch: (1) reason as the ability to set universally valid standards for cognition, action and politics; (2) freedom as a principle of personal, social and political action; (3) progress as the epitome of innovations for the well-being of all people and (4) the criticism of both religious dogmatism and moral and class prejudices as well as of the absolutist state and a patronising church. Höffe I 260 History/Tradition/Höffe: Although the power of tradition is undermined by the Enlightenment, the epoch is not ahistorical. On the contrary, it gives history a high educational value. Representative: As already >Hobbes and >Leibniz, so also >Voltaire and >Hume appear as historians. The Italian philosopher of history and law Giambattista >Vico elaborates the Principi di una scienza nuova (Principi di una scienza nuova, 1725), which, in contrast to the allegedly one-sided orientation towards mathematics and the natural sciences, is intended to study the human in his or her passions, habits and expressions and to prove history as a scientific subject. In France, the Enlightenment is exemplified in >Montesquieu, in the scientific-philosophical large-scale enterprise Encyclopedia and in the prototype of the critical intellectual, Voltaire._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Höffe I Otfried Höffe Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016 |
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