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The 17th century in Europe brought changes that would bring about the world as we know it today. Francis Bacon taught us to question everything and founded modern science with what was called the Baconian method or scientific method, which led to inductive reasoning relacing deductive reasoning (or syllogisms) as the basis of scientific knowledge and research. Philosophers like Descartes, Spinoza, Locke and Liebnitz changed the way we think and learn and even what we think about. Hobbes "Leviathan" and the plays of Moliere enriched all our lives and still do today, and then there is Milton and his beautiful works, "Paradise Lost" "Arreopagitica" his Sonnets, to name just a few, inspired writers to create in ways never thought of before. It was a marvelous age and time with so much hope for a future of better times and of things to come.
Briefly, on the works that I have selected: I have not yet selected the works I want to include by John Milton, but will do so as soon as I find the best volumes to include. Thank you for patiently waiting for them!
GROUP 8: EUROPE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
8) Breasted and Robinson "The Human Adventure" (Group 2)
Continue reading Volume 2 of Selection #8, Robinsons's "The Ordeal of Civilization," finishing chapter 15.
This volume is not available as an eBook at this time.
44) Emil Faguet's "A Literary History of France" (Group 2)
Resume reading Selection 44 completing Part 5 "The Seventeenth Century".
49) Francois de la Rochefoucauld's "Reflections"
Read the entire selection.
50) Moliere "The Plays"
Mr. Durant recommends "Tartuffe,"(2) "The Miser,"(4) "The Misanthrope,"(1) "The Bourgeois Gentleman"(1) and "The Feast of the Statue (Don Juan)"(4).
"The Plays of Moliere" Volume 1 from The Internet Archive
"The Plays of Moliere" Volume 2 from The Internet Archive "The Plays of Moliere" Volume 4 from The Internet Archive 51) Francis Bacon's "Essays"
Read the entire selection.
52) John Milton (Group 2)
I have not yet selected the volumes of Milton I want to include in the list. I hope to have them available shortly.
12) Henry Smith WIlliams' "The History of Science" (Group 2) (Group 2)
Continue reading Volume 2 of Selection #12, finishing chapter 9-13.
41) Harold Hoffding's "A History of Modern Philosophy" (Group 2)
Resume reading Selection #41 reading the chapters on Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Liebnitz and Spinoza.
53) Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan"
Read the entire selection.
54) Baruch Spinoza's "Ethics" and "On the Improvment of Understanding"
Read the entire selection.
11) Elie Faure's "History of Art" (Group 2)
Begin reading Volume 4 of Selection 11, finishing chapters 1-4.
37) Cecil Gray's "History of Music"(Group 6)
Continue reading Selection #37 finishing chapters 9 and 10.
This volume is not available as an eBook at this time.
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