Venezuelan Enlightenment and Colonial Paideia
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.62876/rm.v1i63.6527Keywords:
Venezuela, Illustration, Hispanic America, Venezuelan Colonial HistoryAbstract
This text is part of the essay titled Criollos y afrancesados. For a characterization of the Venezuelan
Enlightenment (Caracas, 2014), which earned the “Estefanía Mosca” National Essay Prize. An outline is made
of the historical and socioeconomic conditions that conditioned the emergence of enlightened thought in
Venezuela during the second half of the 18th century, and the first works written in the country in the spirit of
the Enlightenment.
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Compara el autor los cuatro ríos y quebradas caraqueñas con los cuatro ríos del paraíso según la Biblia: Nilo,
Ganges, Tigris y Éufrates.
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