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Nineteenth century thinkers both developed from and reacted to the Enlightenment's notion of progress.
Schopenhauer's philosophy is part and parcel of the man: gloomy, immersed in Indian thought, highly cultured, fiercely individual, not given to making friends.
But perhaps the most significant development of century was historicism, the belief that something could only be understood, and its significance assessed, by seeing it within the stream of history.
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 The Nineteenth Century Occult Revival
James Webb likens the crisis of consciousness which overtook the nineteenth century to the cultural adjustment of the Renaissance period and contends that it was, in fact, "a belated continuation of the intellectual upheavals of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries."
In the early nineteenth century, England had experienced a series of Christian revivals which were continuations of the Methodist revival and during which formed the Evangelical party of the Anglican Church.
Of the nineteenth century cast of noteworthy characters, it may be postulated that two figures stand preeminently at the fountainhead of the converging streams of twentieth century Spiritualism and globalism.
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Philosophy: The Nineteenth Century (Surnames H-O)

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One of the most influential early 19th century natural theological arguments from design, mostly devoted to examples illustrating Paley's argument for the inferred existence of a deity from the apparent design of creatures.
Stewart was professor of philosophy at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Wilson was Whyte's Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Oxford and Fowler was Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford and President of Corpus Christi College.
www.gach.com /Gach/l1399-02.htm   (5464 words)

  
 SEP: Nineteenth Century Geometry
In the nineteenth century, geometry, like most academic disciplines, went through a period of growth that was near cataclysmic in proportion.
The present article reviews the aspects of nineteenth century geometry that are of major interest for philosophy and hints, in passing, at their philosophical significance.
Today projective geometry does not play a big role in mathematics, but in the late nineteenth century it came to be synonymous with modern geometry.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/geometry-19th   (4771 words)

  
 Links for "19th Century Philosophy"
Return to the course home-page for Nineteenth Century Philosophy.
Principles of the Philosophy of the Future (1843).
British Religion and Philosophy in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Chronology.
www.earlham.edu /~peters/courses/19c/19clinks.htm   (365 words)

  
 Nineteenth-Century Philosophy: Additional Search Terms
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 French literature: Romanticism, Realism, and Other Movements: The Nineteenth Century
French literature: Romanticism, Realism, and Other Movements: The Nineteenth Century
, greatly influenced by the philosophy of Rousseau, was heralded in the writings of Germaine de
In the later part of the century major writers of fiction included Alphonse
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