The modern era in Jewish thought was established by the alarmingly radical figure of seventeenth century philosopher, Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), who influenced Enlightenment thought throughout Europe as part of an international ideological movement. ... There have been numerous bursts of curiosity in Spinoza over the centuries, Germany experienced an explosion of interest in Spinoza during the 1780s, immediately prior to the French Revolution. ... The enlightenment began in an age of, "unprecedented intellectual turmoil which commenced in the mid-seventeenth century,"" and was associated...

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In part one (1382 to the Mid Eighteenth Century), we see several forms of stories. ... In the late seventeenth century, we begin to see the introduction of female writers, and with them, a different writing style. ... The early eighteenth century brought with it a new movement in Yiddish literature. ... The Haskala, or Jewish Enlightenment, period began during the eighteenth century. ... The early 18th century starts to see a movement away from religious themes and the stories seem more for entertainment than teaching. ...

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People living during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries continually experienced changes in their personal lives as well as in their societies. During the sixteenth century, people were affected by scholars such as Martin Luther and John Calvin. ... In the seventeenth century, people witnessed the developments of the Scientific Revolution that was advanced by the scientific method proposed by Sir Frances Bacon and the heliocentric arguments of Galileo Galilei. ... If one were to judge these people according to twenty first century standards, it would be completely understandable if they...

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Religion is a pervasive and significant cultural phenomenon. From the psychological traditions of Freud to the sociological traditions of Durkheim and Marx, these theorists' conclusions explain away religion. However, Eliade and Weber reject such reductions and offers different insights that improve...

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The scheme of creation bears an essential that now dominates the intellectual landscape until the seventeenth century. ... The conceptual principle defended in the eighteenth century insists that one cannot support a value judgment such as an ethical, moral, or esthetic claim simply by establishing scientific facts. ...

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In the early modern period, from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth, apologetics, in a deluded quest for objectivity, sought to establish the credibility of the Christian religion by means of historical proofs. ...

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