Radical Enlightenment KJB Part One of A Short

Part One of A Short Story Writer's Companion discusses fictional truth and significant detail

range of texts and topics -- from ethics and logic to epistemology and metaphysics -- which continue to be the focus of debate today

of praising while asserting his independence

and Euthyphro

Radical Enlightenment KJB Part One of A ShortArguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the wake of the Scientific Revolution of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. In this revolutionary process which effectively overthrew all justicfication for monarchy,