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The author of the basic The Dream of Reason vividly talks about the go up of modern thought. Western philosophy is now two-and-a-half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting no more than 150 years. In his landmark review of Western idea from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The Dream of Reason, Anthony Gottlieb noted the first burst, which came in the Athens of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Now, in The Dream of Enlightenment, Gottlieb expertly navigates another great explosion of thought, taking us to northern European countries in the wake of its wars of religion and the go up of Galilean technology. In a comparatively short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the France Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their symbol. The Dream of Enlightenment instructs their story, which of the beginning of modern idea. As Gottlieb talks about, each one of these men were amateurs: none of them had much regarding any college or university. They attempted to fathom the implications of the new technology and of religious upheaval, which led these to question traditional teachings and attitudes. What does indeed the advance of technology entail for our understanding of ourselves as well as for our ideas of God? How should a government deal with religious variety - and what, actually, is government for? Such questions remain our questions, which explains why Descartes, Hobbes, and the others remain pondered today. Yet it is because we still want to listen to them that people may easily get these philosophers wrong. It is tempting to believe they speak our terms and stay in the world; but to understand them properly, we must step back to their shoes. Gottlieb sets listeners in the brains of the frequently misinterpreted figures, elucidating the annals of their times and the development of clinical ideas, while engagingly explaining their quarrels and examining their legacy in energetic prose. With chapters focusing on Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Pierre Bayle, Leibniz, Hume, Rousseau, and Voltaire - and many walk-on parts - The Dream of Enlightenment creates a sweeping bill of the actual Enlightenment amounted to, and just why we remain in its debts.
