Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, Marat"The book also looks at the response of James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, and Edward Gibbon to the deathbed projects of Hume and Johnson, and it discusses how their political thought differs from Johnson's and Hume's. It also considers the complex relations between reformist and transformist thought in Britain during the last three decades of the century, showing how the views of the two reformist groups and of such transformist writers as Richard Price, Joseph Priestley, and Thomas Paine were affected by a number of political events, from the Wilkes crisis to the French Revolution. Though the book focuses on Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment thought, it often refers to the French Enlightenment, and the chapter on Marat looks at the connection between transformist thought in Britain and France."--BOOK JACKET. |
Hva folk mener - Skriv en omtale
Vi har ikke funnet noen omtaler på noen av de vanlige stedene.
Innhold
| 21 | |
The Death of Hume | 44 |
The Death of Johnson | 86 |
The Death of Marat | 123 |
The Varieties of Enlightenment Thought | 162 |
Notes | 179 |
Works Cited | 203 |
Index | 211 |
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, Marat Stephan Miller Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2001 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
According admired agreed American appeared argues attacked authority become believe Boswell Britain British Burke Burke's called Cato Christianity church civil common concerned considered constitutional continually critical danger David death deathbed scene Dialogues died dying effect eighteenth-century England English Enlightenment enthusiasm Essays established Fall fear France French French Revolution Gibbon give happy History hope human Hume Hume's Ibid idea implies interest John Johnson king lead less Letters liberty Lives London Marat means mind moral natural never opinion Oxford Paine painting passions patriotism perhaps person philosophes play political popular praised prejudices Price Priestley principles progress published question Quoted radical reason Reflections reform religion religious respect revolutionary Reynolds Samuel Johnson says sceptic sects Sentiments Smith social society speaks spirit suggests superstition thing thought told traditional truth virtue wanted Wilkes Writings wrote York
Populære avsnitt
Side 88 - To my question, whether we might not fortify our minds for the approach of death, he answered, in a passion, "No, Sir, let it alone. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Side 89 - For surely, nothing can so much disturb the passions, or perplex the intellects of man, as the disruption of his union with visible nature ; a separation from all that has hitherto delighted or engaged him ; a change not only of the place, but the manner of his being ; an entrance into a state not simply which he knows not, but which perhaps he has not faculties to know ; an immediate and perceptible communication with the supreme Being, and, what is above all distressful and alarming, the final...
Side 83 - The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Side 102 - Though it should be granted that those who are born to poverty and drudgery should not be deprived by an improper education of the opiate of ignorance, — even this concession will not be of much use to direct our practice, unless it be determined who are those that are born to poverty. To entail irreversible poverty upon generation after generation, only because the ancestor happened to be poor, is in itself cruel, if not unjust...
Side 66 - ... with the opinion of Divine illuminations, and with a contempt for the common rules of reason, morality, and prudence. It is thus enthusiasm produces the most cruel disorders in human society; but its fury is like that of thunder and tempest, which exhaust themselves in a little time, and leave the air more calm and serene than before.
Side 94 - Treating your adversary with respect, is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled. The greatest part of men cannot judge of reasoning, and are impresssed by character; so that, if you allow your adversary a respectable character, they will think, that though you differ from him, you may be in the wrong. Sir, treating your adversary with respect, is striking soft in a battle.
Side 147 - I have lived to it; I could almost say, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation. — I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge, which has undermined superstition and error. — I have lived to see the rights of men better understood than ever; and nations panting for liberty which seemed to have lost the idea of it. — I have lived to see thirty millions of people, indignant and resolute, spurning at slavery, and demanding liberty with an irresistible...
Side 109 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Side 59 - While he remains in a country village his conduct may be attended to, and he may be obliged to attend to it himself. In this situation, and in this situation only, he may have what is called a character to lose.
Side 167 - You see, Sir, that in this enlightened age I am I bold enough to confess that we are generally men of untaught feelings : that, instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree...
Referanser til denne boken
Autobiography as Philosophy: The Philosophical Uses of Self-presentation Thomas Mathien,D. G. Wright Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2006 |
Bibliografisk informasjon
| Tittel | Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, Marat |
| Forfatter | Stephen Miller |
| Utgave | illustrert |
| Utgiver | Bucknell University Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0838754813, 9780838754818 |
| Lengde | 219 sider |
| Eksporter sitat | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |