Eastern & Western History, Thought & Culture, 1600-1815This work aims to provide a broad, integrated and reasonably comprehensive survey of political economic, cultural and social developments of the 17th and 18th centuries in the eastern and western worlds. |
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... principles empirically , without reference to any religious criteria . Thus , it was man , not God , who was the measure of all things and who prescribed law and established moral bounds for the benefit of society . Certain principles ...
... principles empirically , without reference to any religious criteria . Thus , it was man , not God , who was the measure of all things and who prescribed law and established moral bounds for the benefit of society . Certain principles ...
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... principles and man's concept of God were not absolutes but experientially learned through the senses -- a view which he advanced in one form or another in other writings , though for the sake of avoiding censorship , he usually spoke of ...
... principles and man's concept of God were not absolutes but experientially learned through the senses -- a view which he advanced in one form or another in other writings , though for the sake of avoiding censorship , he usually spoke of ...
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... principles that they believed commanded universal respect . Absolute standards were established by the Creator and fulfilled in Christ the Redeemer of mankind under whose sovereignty the state functioned as a holy commonwealth . Though ...
... principles that they believed commanded universal respect . Absolute standards were established by the Creator and fulfilled in Christ the Redeemer of mankind under whose sovereignty the state functioned as a holy commonwealth . Though ...
Contents
Forces in Contention | 13 |
Baroque Cultural Currents Politics Economics | 49 |
and Society Part II | 75 |
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