The History of Freethought in the Nineteenth Century, V1
Author: J. M. Robertson
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Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9781494103521
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Author: J. M. Robertson
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9781494103521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
Author: J. M. Robertson
Publisher:
Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9781494103194
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Author: John Mackinnon Robertson (Journalist, Essayist, Freidenker)
Publisher:
Published: 1929
Total Pages: 4
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. M. Robertson
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Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781494095963
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Author: John Mackinnon Robertson
Publisher:
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 635
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Published: 2013-10
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781494095697
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Author: John Bagnell Bury
Publisher: IDEA
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781932716320
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Most people who live in open societies, especially in the West, take freedom of thought and expression for granted. Yet throughout most of history, independent thinking was discouraged and often persecuted. The battle for independence of mind continued for centuries. In Freedom of Thought, J. B. Bury provides a dramatic survey of intellectual history, clearly and eloquently describing the struggle for intellectual freedom from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century. He guides the reader from the flowering of rational inquiry in early Greece, through the suppression of free thought during much of the Middle Ages, to the rediscovery of classical philosophy in the Renaissance, and finally to the growth of rationalism beginning with the Age of Reason in the 17th century. Along the way, Bury explains the key events that contributed to the modern rational understanding of nature and offers concise sketches of the many important persons'philosophers, scientists, and writers'who c
Author: John Bagnell Bury
Publisher:
Published: 1913
Total Pages: 270
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces freedom of thought from the freedom of Greece, through the persecution of the medieval church and state, to the rise of religious toleration and rationalism.
Author: J. B. Bury
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-11-13
Total Pages: 125
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It is a common saying that thought is free. A man can never be hindered from thinking whatever he chooses so long as he conceals what he thinks. The working of his mind is limited only by the bounds of his experience and the power of his imagination. In this book J.B. Bury examines the freedom of thought throughout history from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century. Contents: Reason Free (Greece And Rome) Reason in Prison (The Middle Ages) Prospect of Deliverance (The Renaissance and the Reformation) Religious Toleration The Growth of Rationalism (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries) The Progress of Rationalism (Nineteenth Century) The Justification of Liberty of Thought