Erasmus Darwin
[ Science / Art and Literature / Philosophy ]
… Lunar Society but also the circle of Joseph Johnson in London, struggling for abolitionism and social reforms. People > Science People > Art and Literature People > Philosophy Mots-clés Abolition Affection Community Correspondence Lunar … a series of changes. Erasmus Darwin investigated the origin of sociability in primitive species through speculative science and experimentation. By observing micro-organisms such as the volvox or the polypus, he supposed that the … Age of Philosophy. The Age of Philosophy was yet to come; it was an idealized future without war and crime: ‘Philosophy. Science. Peace. Elements subdued. Swords turned to ploughshares. Every man under his fig tree. Moral world. Love each …
Abolition | Affection | Community | Correspondence | Lunar society | Social Contract
… the treatise and had it published in 1710. 9 David Hume praises Shaftesbury, among others, for beginning 'to put the science of man on a new footing,' 10 and the transformative power of his thinking roiled both Great Britain and the … Evidence of the Vogue of Shaftesbury in the Eighteenth Century`, Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (vol. 21, 1924), p. 57-70. Partager Partager sur Facebook Partager sur Linkedin Partager sur …