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[ES] Grecia y Roma constituyen una de las referencias fundamentales en los escritos de los pensadores ilustrados, en concreto en la búsqueda de formas políticas para superar la concepción teocrática del poder y el absolutismo. No obstante, ese interés se plantea sin nostalgia alguna. Los autores ilustrados, optimistas y con gran confianza en sí mismos y en el progreso, destacan en las naciones más avanzadas del mundo occidental en la época un desarrollo económico, un bienestar y una estabilidad política sin parangón en la historia. Referencias a la obra de E. Gibbon, y a otros autores de la denominada “escuela histórica escocesa”, como D. Hume, A. Ferguson, A. Smith y J. Millar, ilustran estas posiciones.
[EN] Ancient Greece and Rome constitute one of the basic inspirations for the thinkers of the Enlightenment, particularly in their search for new political forms to challenge theocratic conceptions of power and absolutism. Nevertheless, this interest does not present any nostalgia. Enlightened authors, highly optimistic, self-confident and believers in human progress, underlined in the most advanced nations of their time an economic development, a welfare and a political stability never seen before in History. These positions are illustrated by commentaries on the work of E. Gibbon and references to Scottish historians, like D. Hume, A. Smith, A. Ferguson and J. Millar.
Este trabajo se integra en el Proyecto de investigación de la UPV/EHU "El mundo antiguo en la Ilustración y el primer romanticismo vascos"
Javier Alonso Aldama, Cirilo García Román e Idoia Mamolar Sánchez (eds)
scottish historians, Antigüedad, progress, Enlightenment, Edward Gibbon, Antiquity, Ilustración
scottish historians, Antigüedad, progress, Enlightenment, Edward Gibbon, Antiquity, Ilustración
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