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Reviewed the Uned Stat on December 2, 2014Gay prents an terpertatn of the Enlightenment that is persuasive. " Gay ments, "wh the pronouncements, natural law which had occupied a subordate place the Christian scheme of thgs, ma s claratn of pennce. " (317)Gay also explas the Enlightenments bt to christian teachg...
"Gay adds; " was precisely the ntradictns which ma M Montamy so charmg a pann that also ma him an uncerta fenr of the fah. (341)Gay David Hume as a primary source.
"Gay adds; "This was not a strenuo fah. " (342)Gay's analysis of the reason for loss Christian fah is tertg. " (343)Consirg English belief, Gay wr: "The Englishman's need for peace after a century of upheaval and the revulsn of ted and rpectable man agast relig enthiasm alced wh the growg of thory of naturalism to produce a torpid Church and a tepid relign.
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" (345)Gay ntu, "there was much fort and ltle anxiety sermons purportg to prove that the urse of a Christian life was easy, the reward for good nduct was sure and glor, that God mand men nothg eher unsuable to our reason or prejudicial to our tert; nay, nothg that is severe and agast the gra of our nature, and that, on the ntrary, the laws of God are reasonable, that is sued to our nature and advantageo to our tert. " (354)Gay reports on the mancript by Reimas that affected Lsg.
Gay do an excellent job of munitg the passn behd all of the efforts to brg about an age of reason. I should also add that thanks to Gay's mand of the wrten word, the book is tly a joy to read; there were tim when I found myself wonrg how much I uld really be learng, given how betifully the sentenc flowed. I suppose says somethg about the medcre standard of wrg most morn scholarly works that one's spicns should be aroed when enunterg a volume by as acplished a stylist as Peter Gay.
Reviewed the Uned Stat on December 2, 2015This is the send and fal stallment of Peter Gay's most ede, learned and prehensive treatment of the Enlightenment Wtern Europe. The prose is relatively fluid, but tak some time gettg ed to the language, as Peter Gay is of Germanic orig and was wrg back the 1960's.
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Reviewed the Uned Stat on July 20, 2010As is said my review of the first volume of this work, "The Enlightenment: The Rise of Morn Paganism, " the most enarg qualy of the prent book is that Profsor Gay is unaaid to adm the aquci of the enlightenment thkers and theori, while general agreeg wh them. I'm glad that Gay exposed the radil and foundatnal philosophe Voltaire as anti-semic, while the more centrist enlightener, Montqui, a philo-seme. 61, Gay expos Voltaire and Dirot as cultural snobs, which their scendants ntue to be.
Dissapotgly, Gay on p. Gay generoly adms that Isaac Newton, Euler, Pritly were believers at least the argument om sign, but ntemporary hubris-filled thkers thk that they are smarter than Newton and pp. 517, Gay mentns "..
521In ncln, I ce Gay as stag (178) "As i have noted before, like other revolutnari, the philosoph were anythg but jt to their adversari or their anctors.
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Reviewed the Uned Stat on May 15, 2018The late Peter Gay, a highly teemed Yale historian (retired) me to light as one of Ameri's few public tellectuals wh this two volume analysis of the , stctur and implitns of the tellectual era that gave Ameri our Declaratn of Inpennce, Constutn and Bill of Rights. Gay's analysis, but I'm the first to adm he mak strong, well nstcted arguments based on unimpeachable rearch. Reviewed the Uned Stat on Augt 22, 2010I picked up a py of Peter Gay's Enlightenment as a disrd om our public library.
Reviewed the Uned Stat on December 18, 2013Peter Gay articulat the history of The Enlightenment. Peter Gay will evably leave his stamp on our nceptn of the Enlight- ment for s to e. There followed 1964 The Party of Humany, a seri of says which Gay challenged some of the monplace characterizatns of the philosoph, pecially the notn that they were impractil ialists.
Reviewed the Uned Stat on December 13, 2012Gay's acunt of the Enlightenment is still h and new as today.