Sparks of reason

Throughout the late Middle Ages and the early modern period, the Low Countries were home to a vibrant tradition of lay philosophy in Dutch. During this turbulent century, several authors, such as Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert (1522-1590) and Hendrik Laurensz Spiegel (1549-1612), developed an ethics which was founded on rationality and self-motivation. This 'vernacular rationalism' was a dynamic melting pot of classical philosophy, vernacular humanism, intellectual spiritualism and popular piety. Vernacular rationalism was rooted in an age-old Netherlandish tradition and was to become one of the breeding grounds for the early Enlightenment in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Its point of departure was the inherent goodness of humankind and the possibility of moral growth through rational knowledge. Its goal was perfect happiness.

שנה

2015

שפה

English

סדרה

Bibliotheca dissidentium Neerlandicorum

הוצאה

Verloren

מהדורות

1

עמודים

304

ISBN

9789087045159

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata