Key Thinkers of the English, Scottish and American Enlightenments
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Key Thinkers of the English, Scottish and American Enlightenments

From Locke to Madison

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Key Thinkers of the English, Scottish and American Enlightenments

From Locke to Madison

About this book

This book summarizes and explains the way in which political thinkers in England, Scotland, and North America reshaped Western thinking about government and citizens.  Although the ideas of the Anglo-American Enlightenment can be traced back, in embryo, to the Italian Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation, it was responses to wars – the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) and the English Civil War (1642-1651) which were fought above all over religion – that defined it. Algernon Sidney demanded an end to royal absolutism. John Locke called for a government based on religious toleration. Benedictus de Spinoza, Samuel von Pufendorf and others elaborated on the ideas that society was composed of sovereign individuals endowed with reason and rights. Building on the works of these thinkers, Scottish philosophers including David Hume and Adam Smith, and American revolutionaries including Thomas Jefferson and James Madison advanced arguments defending human reason, individual freedom, including religious freedom, and democracy.

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Yes, you can access Key Thinkers of the English, Scottish and American Enlightenments by Sabrina P. Ramet,Torbjørn L. Knutsen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Political Philosophy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. 1. Introduction: The Seeds of Enlightenment
  4. 2. The English Enlightenment: Algernon Sidney and John Locke
  5. 3. The Scottish Enlightenment: Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, and Adam Smith
  6. 4. The American Enlightenment: Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison
  7. 5. Mary Wollstonecraft
  8. 6. Conclusion: The Anglo-American Enlightenment in Historical Context
  9. Back Matter