Bernard Bolzano ; translated by Paul Rusnock & Rolf George.
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New York, NY :
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Rodopi,
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2007.
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1 online resource (368 pages)
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Studien zur österreichischen Philosophie ;
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Bd. 40
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction; I: Selected Exhortations; II: On Rights, Civil Disobedience, and Resistance to Authority; III: Ethics and Philosophy of Religion; IV: Political Philosophy; V: Index.
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Celebrated today for his groundbreaking work in logic and the foundations of mathematics, Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) was best known in his own time as a leader of the reform movement in his homeland (Bohemia, then part of the Austrian Empire). As professor of religious science at the Charles University in Prague from 1805 to 1819, Bolzano was a highly visible public intellectual, a courageous and determined critic of abuses in Church and State. Based in large part on a carefully argued utilitarian practical philosophy, he developed a non-violent program for the reform of the authoritarian ins.