Code
3E010807
Duration
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2010
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- History
- Theory and methodology of philosophy
- Philosophy
- Ethics
- Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
Keywords
democracy
political theory
enlightenment
Project description
Research into the roots of the Enlightenment, more specifically by examining some central notions such as 'freedom', 'equality' and 'fraternity', and the way in which these were applied in political theory. Themes that will be examined in this context are i.a. slavery, the idea of the natural state and the noble savage, the image of the atheist martyr, etc.