Vol. 1 No. 2 (1999)
Artes

The Contribution of the Jesuit Order to the Propagation of the Enlightenment Ideas in Lithuania

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Dalia Marija Stančienė
Lithuanian Institute of Philosophy and Sociology Vilnius

Published 01-10-1999

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Stančienė, D. M. (1999). The Contribution of the Jesuit Order to the Propagation of the Enlightenment Ideas in Lithuania. Verbum – Analecta Neolatina, 1(2), 53–57. Retrieved from https://ojs.ppke.hu/verbum/article/view/959
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Abstract

The Enlightenment came to Lithuania in the second half of the XVIII century, at the time of economical and political disorder. The Lithuanian establishment treated the ideas of Enlightenment as the means against the degradation of the country. The Jesuit Order responded to the influence of the Enlightenment reshaping its educational programmes, first of all in the Vilnius University, which they had establis-hed a century ago...

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