Imbued with the new ideas of the Western Enlightenment,he produced the first Greek handbook of dogmatic theology.
This conception of human rights, she explains, had its origins in the Western Enlightenment of the 18th century.
This tendency was shared with the prevalent values of the Western secular Enlightenment of their time, that sought to rationalise Revelation.
Its members, known as the Kollyvades, were alarmed at the way in which all too many of their fellow Greeks were falling under the influence of the Western Enlightenment.
His thesis that values are differences which develop when reconciled gives a whole new perspective to the values of democracy and the Western Enlightenment.
During the 18th century the ideals of the Western European Enlightenment and the French Revolution became widely known to the Greek scholars.
Absence of humanism, portraying the minority as either uncontrollably irrational or calculating and manipulative, downplaying cultural achievements and masking intolerance in the celebration of Western Enlightenment.
Much of the thought of the Western Enlightenment evolved under the oppressive absolute monarchies and was dedicated towards fighting for more freedom.
Feminism in Russia originated in the 18th century, influenced by the Western European Enlightenment and mostly confined to the aristocracy.
Many intellectuals brushed aside the advantages that Central Europe had that other regions lacked: high literacy rates, a long bourgeois tradition and exposure to the Western Enlightenment.