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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Enlightenment philosophy"”.
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Saving reason : Jurgen Habermas's synthesis of western philosophy.
This dissertation argues that Jürgen Habermas’s philosophy of communicative reason successfully defends the Enlightenment notion of Reason as the vehicle of truth and progress, while integrating Postmodern insights into the illusory nature of metaphysical foundations. Habermas discards the …
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Mastering the Story/Storying the Master: Philosophy of Education Discourse and Empire
… exploration of the role of Euro-North American Philosophy of Education discourse in the genealogy of race struggle. I examine how the reliable narration of Philosophy of Education functions as a project of racial rule premised on moral/temporal/spatial notions of (White) civility and …
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Republican mothers of and above their time: Abigail Adams and Theodosia Burr Alston
… its emphasis on virtue and public service, and Enlightenment philosophy, with its emphasis on reason and the perfectibility of the individual, gave birth to a new female ideal: the Republican Mother. Though this specific term would not be coined for two centuries, during the era of the American …
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John Witherspoon and the right of resistance
… of resistance. A product of the Reformation and Enlightenment movements, this doctrine offered justification for questioning the authority of magistrates acting contrary to their sovereignty: it further compelled disobedience to unjust laws and the removal of unjust officials to protect the …
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Romantic Humility: Literature, Ethico-Politics, and Emotion, 1780-1820
… freedom of the individual—first emerged in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods in Europe, and continues to be a defining feature of Western democracies. The liberal valorization of freedom as the sovereign moral concept was a consequence of Enlightenment philosophy, scientific progress, and …
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Changing Conceptions of Geopolitical Success: The Treaty of Paris as a Watershed in Anglo-French Understandings of the International System
This thesis explores the differences between the Treaty of Paris in 1763 and previous international settlements, arguing that they are due to changes in the understanding of the international order. By looking at the decline in religious language, concern over the welfare of those impacted by the …