Article ID: CBB001420241

The Enlightenment Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Scientific Thinking Attempts to Deliver Order and Progress (2014)

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The article discusses the nineteenth-century intellectual history of Mexico, focusing particularly on the period from 1876 to 1911 when President Porfirio Díaz was in power. The influence of positivism, as espoused by French philosopher August Comte as well as other philosophers including John Stuart Mill, Alexander Bain, and Herbert Spencer, on Mexican social and education policies is explored. Topics considered include physician Gabino Barreda, Mexican President Benito Juárez, secularism, and intellectual José María Luis Mora.

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Authors & Contributors
Scharff, Robert C.
Guillin, Vincent
Brown, Robert
Wilson, Matthew
Wilson, Fred
Santilli, Haydée
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Science and Education
Rivista di Filosofia
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Liverpool University Press
La Manufacture
Harper & Row
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press
Brill
Concepts
Positivism
Science
Philosophy
Social sciences
Psychology
Science and society
People
Comte, Auguste
Mill, John Stuart
Spencer, Herbert
Bain, Alexander
Lewes, George Henry
Eliot, George
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
Modern
18th century
Places
Great Britain
Latin America
France
British Isles
Argentina
United States
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