Project Gutenberg 2010-11-11 Public domain in the USA. 98 Benn, Alfred William 1843 1915 History of Modern Philosophy E-text prepared by Steven Gibbs, Keith Edkins, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "History of Modern Philosophy" by Alfred William Benn is a philosophical account written in the early 20th century. The work delves into the evolution of philosophical thought from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, with a focus on key figures and their contributions to modern philosophy. The likely topic of the book encompasses an examination of major philosophical movements and the thinkers that shaped them, exploring their ideas and the historical context surrounding these developments. The opening of the book introduces the concept of the "Philosophical Renaissance," detailing the lack of significant philosophical advancement during the thousand years following the closure of the schools of Athens. Benn discusses the gradual changes in society that set the stage for a return to philosophical inquiry, influenced largely by the revival of classical thought and the innovations of the Renaissance. The text presents an overview of how the philosophical landscape transitioned from medieval dogmatism to the questioning and inquiry that characterized the modern era, indicating the roles played by Christianity, the rise of humanism, and the impact of new scientific ideas, such as Copernican astronomy, in initiating this transformation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34283/34283-h/images/frontispiece.jpg en Philosophy, Modern -- History B Text Browsing: History - General Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics 335546 335432 2024-09-14T11:18:15.918130 2023-09-15T06:21:46.251595 text/html text/html 330977 2010-11-11T12:19:59 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 384684 2010-11-11T12:22:57 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 464792 2024-09-14T11:18:25.137122 application/epub+zip 462398 2024-09-14T11:18:19.057041 application/epub+zip 176618 2024-09-14T11:18:17.363125 application/epub+zip 605501 2024-09-14T11:18:29.198021 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 582097 2024-09-14T11:18:23.480064 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 304140 2022-09-15T14:46:17.399164 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 277104 277023 2024-09-14T11:18:14.943092 2023-09-15T06:21:45.307592 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 276843 2010-11-11T12:16:41 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 105631 2010-11-11T12:16:41 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 276880 2010-11-11T12:16:41 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 105580 2010-11-11T12:16:41 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19947 2024-09-14T11:18:29.352976 application/rdf+xml 12601 2024-09-14T11:18:17.765033 image/jpeg 2925 2024-09-14T11:18:17.577064 image/jpeg 445676 2024-09-14T11:18:15.973051 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia