Yet it is acknowledged that this was not the first use of the term in Enlightenment philosophy. As the Merriam-Webster Dictionary writes on the term thing-in-itself: ‘First known use: 1739.’ Still, that is two years after Amo’s main work was turned in at Wittenberg, in 1737.
I wonder if this will ever be corrected in the dictionary? How many times has this happened and we just have not found as solid proof as in this scenario?
He believed in the supremacy of reason, and that all humans – male and female – are created equal.
I find it really interesting how Yacob was able to come to this conclusion and write about his views, yet we only remember and honor Western men for this idea. Makes you wonder about where those men heard/read Yacob's views in the first place.
Although Dolu and Desideri went to Siam and Tibet to bring the wisdom of Europe to the Buddhists, they also brought back the wisdom of the Buddhists to Europe. Siam and Tibet changed them more than they changed Siam and Tibet.
It is interesting to me how some of these individuals went to spread their religious/philosophical ideals and unintentionally played a large role in the spread of knowledge and ideals of other religions, all while not actually spreading their own as much as they had aimed to.
Historians have begun to think about the Enlightenment in a newly global way. .ose creaky wooden ships carried ideas across the boundaries of continents, languages, and religions just as the Internet does now (although they were a lot slower and perhaps even more perilous).
This comment sticks out to me a lot because I feel like a large amount of people like to think of the internet as the first time that humans had contact in such a broad way, and it is very interesting to see that that may not be as true as we have all assumed. Humans seem to be more interconnected than we believed originally, and lots of ideas come from interacting with one another.