And by challenging the received, quasi-foundational, Enlightenment conception of science, history of science and related philosophies of science gained great cultural significance for a time.
The rationalist metaphysics of Leibniz (1646 1716) is also foundational for the Enlightenment, particularly the German Enlightenment (die Aufklärung), which is founded to a great extent on the Leibnizean rationalist system of Christian Wolff (1679 1754).
René Descartes' rationalist system of philosophy is foundational for the Enlightenment in this regard.
Cartesian philosophy is also foundational for the Enlightenment through igniting various controversies in the latter decades of the seventeenth century that provide the context of intellectual tumult out of which the Enlightenment springs.
Barbauld's literary career spanned numerous periods in British literary history: her work promoted the values of both the Enlightenment and Sensibility, and her poetry was foundational to the development of British Romanticism.
Enlightenment's motto, he proclaimed, is: "Dare to understand!" and its foundational demand is freedom of thought and speech.
Buddha), German writer Hermann Hesse harks back to the foundational scene in which Gautama, circa 500 B.C.E., meditates for 49 days and eventually attains enlightenment under a Bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya, India.
This doctrine of "original enlightenment," along with its related teaching of the "womb (or embryo) of buddhahood," is foundational to the Korean Buddhist tradition.
The real war on religion is being waged by those on the Right who read the Bible not as the story of God's saving interaction with the world through the unfolding of God's reign, but either as foundational for a conservative politics of self-interest or as a blueprint for a post-Enlightenment cult of individual piety.
I want foundational health.
