A global enlightenment western progress and Chinese science
The Enlightenment gave rise not only to new ideas of progress but consequential debates about them. Did distant times and places have anything to teach the here and now? Voltaire could believe that they did; Hegel was convinced that they did not. Early philosophes praised Chinese philosophy as an en...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham ; London
Duke University Press
2023, ©2023
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| Series: | The life of ideas
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The death of Voltaire's Confucius
- The ex-Jesuit mission in China
- The origins of esotericism
- The yin-yang theory of animal magnetism
- The invention of Eastern wisdom