In "Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politic of Radical Engagement," author Stephen Eric Bronner emphasizes the connection between the Enlightenment ideas and contemporary society and the need for modification in the way of presenting the Enlightenment ideas. ... He starts the argument with the analysis of the Dialectic of Enlightenment. ... " Reclaiming the Enlightenment, as Bronner raises as a positive example, takes a divergent approach in presenting the ideals of the Enlightenment. ... Bronner seems to be all against metaphysical way of presenting Enlightenment, but he...

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In England in the 17th century, during the Great Rebellion, Englishmen in the New Model Army of Parliament began to debate liberal ideas concerning extension of the suffrage, parliamentary rule, the responsibilities of government, and freedom of conscience. The controversies of this period produced ...

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The term "state of nature" is used to describe and understand what the natural attributes and characteristics of human beings would have been like in the absence of civilization and enlightenment and how they would have interacted with one another in this state. ... Spinoza argues that men are born ignorant of reason is not naturally conditioned in them and by the time they have gained reason through enlightenment and virtue, most of their life has passed anyway and therefore before he has acquired reason, if he ever does, there is no sin living under the ˜sway of nature' (Spinoza,19...

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