The legitimation of science in the early German enlightenment Leipzig, ca. 1687-1750
The legitimation of science as the most authoritative form of human knowledge is the result of complex literary and socio-political processes. In the course of the eighteenth century, lay people came to see science as an authority beyond criticism, whose norms are value-neutral, self-evident and abs...
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49938 |