
The Enlightenment
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Sir Anthony Kenny FBA was born in Liverpool in 1931, and was educated at Upholland College and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. From 1963 to 1989 he was at Balliol College, Oxford, first as Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, and then as Master. He later became Warden of Rhodes House, President of the British Academy and of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and Chair of the Board of the British Library. In 2006 Kenny was awarded the American Catholic Philosophical Association's Aquinas Medal for his significant contributions to philosophy.
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- Intro
- THE ENLIGHTENMENT
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations and conventions
- Chronology
- Part 1 THE HISTORY
- 1 The Enlightenment: when and where?
- 2 President Montesquieu
- 3 Hume on miracles
- 4 Voltaire the man of letters
- 5 The Encyclopedists
- 6 The birth of aesthetics
- 7 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 8 Reason and sentiment
- 9 Voltaire as philosopher
- 10 A quarrel between friends
- 11 Transatlantic enlightenment
- 12 Farewell to Hume and Smith
- 13 Edward Gibbon
- 14 Jeremy Bentham
- 15 The French Revolution
- 16 The rights of men and women
- Part 2 The legacy
- 17 The cultural legacy
- 18 The religious legacy
- 19 The ethical legacy
- 20 The political legacy
- Glossary
- Further reading
- Index
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