{"product_id":"the-wisdom-of-the-enlightenment-9781633887930","title":"The Wisdom of the Enlightenment","description":"\u003cp\u003eEnlightenment\u003ci\u003e--Aufkl?rung \u003c\/i\u003ein German, \u003ci\u003eLumi?res\u003c\/i\u003e in French\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eis more an idea than a period. But it is an idea that took hold in a particular historical context of revolutionary scientific advances, increasing economic and social freedom, rising literacy and prosperity, and a greater willingness to challenge the authoritarianism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In \u003ci\u003eThe Wisdom of the Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e, author Michael K. Kellogg points to 1637, the year that gave us Rene Descartes' landmark inquiry into truth, as the beginning of a period that radically changed individual human thought and collective societal action. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Descartes' assertion of \"I think, therefore I am,\" to the philosophies of Enlightenment thinkers like Moliere, Spinoza, Voltaire, Hume, and Kant, this book charts the new and revolutionary philosophies at a time when progress seemed possible across the whole range of human knowledge and endeavor. In sweeping aside tired superstitions and applying a new scientific methodology, the Enlightenment ideas of progress through free exercise of reason ushered us into the modern world. This engaging and comprehensive survey of Enlightenment thoughts and thinkers is a celebration of the faith that all problems are solvable by human reason. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael K. Kellogg (Washington, DC), educated at Stanford and Oxford in philosophy and at Harvard Law School, is a founding and managing partner at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans \u0026amp; Figel, PLLC. He is the author of The Wisdom of the Renaissance, The Wisdom of the Middle Ages, The Greek Search for Wisdom, and The Roman Search for Wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Prometheus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50450421842194,"sku":"9781633887930","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0426f480-8198-4b18-8054-584db006e50d.jpg?v=1729755363","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-wisdom-of-the-enlightenment-9781633887930","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}