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Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers by Carl L. Becker 1965 SC
Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers by Carl L. Becker 1965 SC
27th Printing
Soft Cover
168 Pages
Indexed
Based on the Storrs Lectures Delivered at Yale University
Distinguished American historian Carl Lotus Becker (1873 - 1945) was born in Waterloo, Iowa. He enrolled at the University of Wisconsin in 1893 as an undergraduate and while there gradually gained an interest in studying history. Remaining for graduate work, Becker studied under Frederick Jackson Turner, who became his doctoral adviser there and was awarded the Ph.D. in 1907. He was John Wendell Anderson Professor of History at Cornell from 1917 to 1941 and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1923. Cornell has recognized his work as an educator by naming one of its five new residential colleges the Carl Becker House. Becker is best known for The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (1932), four lectures on the Enlightenment delivered at Yale. His assertion - that philosophers Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, and Locke in The Age of Reason relied far more upon Christian assumptions than they cared to admit - has been influential, but has also been much attacked, notably by Peter Gay. Interest in the book is partly explained by this passage: "In the thirteenth century the key words would no doubt be God, sin, grace, salvation, heaven and the like; in the nineteenth century, matter, fact, matter-of-fact, evolution, progress; in the twentieth century, relativity, process, adjustment, function, complex. In the eighteenth century the words without which no enlightened person could reach a restful conclusion were nature, natural law, first cause, reason, sentiment, humanity, perfectibility
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