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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Rise of Modern Paganism (1966)di Peter Gay
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In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Now a master historian goes back to the sources to give a fully rounded account of its true accomplishments. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The focus here is on the effort by the philosophes and their fellow travelers to overcome, as they saw it, the irrationality and superstitions of medieval Scholasticism. This is a well-known story of the 17th-18th c. European Enlightenment. What makes Gay’s book useful is the attention that he pays to the congruities between the brightest lights of Christian theology and the ‘enlightened’ thinkers. After a thorough examination of the Enlightenment sources (again, that delicious bibliography), Gay doubles back and uncovers the work of late-medieval churchmen who were writing exegetical critiques of the extant orthodoxies—and in so doing anticipated many of the attacks leveled against Scholasticism by the philosophes. Many of the churchmen were proto-scientists, motivated by the Christian view of rationality and inspired to investigate the natural world so as to better understand divine purpose. For a while, writes Gay, theology became philosophy, but the Reformation challenge provoked a reactionary retrenchment, and theologians largely abandoned rationality for myth. It was the elevation of ‘mere myth’ to the status of philosophy that riled up so many of the philosophes.
Peter Gay makes a strong case for understanding the European Enlightenment not as a sudden repudiation of medieval irrationality, but as a gradual evolution in western philosophy. And while the philosophes claimed ancestry among the Classical Greeks, there was a more immediate antecedent of which they were ignorant.