Aug 2026· Siglo Dieciocho· pp. 103-123· 0 citations· 33 references
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This article draws attention to the phenomena of personal censorship in the eighteenth century, defined as censorship directed at an individual by name. It concentrates on two cases. One was the case in which Francisco Soto y Marne was prohibited from publishing a critique of Benito Feijoo by the king of Spain in 1750. What made this case possibly unique was that the king added to his decree a general prohibition against anybody who tried to publish criticism of Feijoo. Even Feijoo may not have wished for such a situation. The second case was the king of Prussia’s order of 1794 to Immanuel Kant to cease publishing about religion. This has been seen as a limitation on religious freedom, but it can also be seen as a defense of religious peace in a context of religious strife that Kant could be understood as provoking. Both cases make us look with fresh eyes upon the purposes and meanings of censorship in the eighteenth century.
This article takes the oeuvre of Syrian intellectual Farah Antun (1874–1922) as an entry point into the vexed relationship between religion, historicity, and the secular. Although it is true that Antun's concept of religion bore the unmistakable marks of European Christian heritage, the article seeks to illustrate so...
Henry Clements· Comparative Studies of South...· 0 citations
Abstract This article seeks to elucidate the politico-theological significance of Ludwig Feuerbach’s magnum opus, The Essence of Christianity (1841), by considering that work in relation to reviews published by Feuerbach in the 1830s of works written by two figures identified by him as representatives of “the Positive...
Todd Gooch· Journal for the History of M...· 0 citations
One of the main criticisms directed at Avicenna’s conception of God in the history of Islamic thought is the claim that he conceived of God as an essentially necessitating cause (mūjib bi-l-dhāt) and thereby eliminated divine will and freedom. This criticism, systematized especially by al-Ghazālī in Tahāfut al-Falāsifa...
H. Tanrıverdi· Bozok üniversitesi İlahiyat...· 0 citations
This paper examines the meaning of Enlightenment in the contemporary “post-truth” era. Starting with examples of mass credulity and misinformation, it argues that contemporary obscurantism differs from that faced by eighteenth-century thinkers because it is generated not by a lack of information but by an overabundance...
L. Caranti· Rivista Italiana di Filosofi...· 0 citations
ABSTRACT:The longing to speak to the beloved beyond death is humanity’s oldest yearning. I describe a modern phenomenon, the ghostbot, an artificial intelligence reconstruction of a human person, “created” by using text and images left behind after a person has died. Often this data is generated by a willing participan...
Tadeusz Różewicz perceived World War II as an apocalyptic catastrophe that brought about the death of poetry. He acknowledged that existing means of expression were powerless in the face of the extermination of Jews, and that this inadequacy evidenced the exhaustion of earlier poetic forms. Różewicz felt compelled to...
P. Stępień, Agnieszka Jeżyk· The Polish Review· 0 citations
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