The Enlightenment Collection

The Enlightenment Collection

by Baruch SpinozaJohn Locke Thomas Paine and others
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Publication Date: 06/12/2019

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The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the sovereignty of reason and the evidence of the senses as the primary sources of knowledge and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state. In France, the central doctrines of the Enlightenment philosophers were individual liberty and religious tolerance, in opposition to an absolute monarchy and the fixed dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church. The Enlightenment was marked by an emphasis on the scientific method and reductionism, along with increased questioning of religious orthodoxy—an attitude captured by the phrase Sapere aude (Dare to know).


The Enlightenment Collection brings together the greatest works to emerge from this incredible period of human intellectual creativity.


Featuring:

Meditations on First Philosophy, by Rene Descartes

The Ethics, by Baruch Spinoza

Essay Concerning Human Understanding, by John Locke

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume

The Social Contract, by Jean Jacques Rousseau

The Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine

Manifesto of the Communist Party, by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, by Henry David Thoreau

and

On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin

ISBN:
9788835344834
9788835344834
Category:
Agnosticism & atheism
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
06-12-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Steppenwolf Press
Karl Marx

Karl Marx was born in the German city of Trier in 1818. He studied law in Bonn and Berlin at his father's insistence, but his true interests lay elsewhere and, in 1841, he received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena.

For the next two years he wrote for radical left-wing newspapers before moving to Paris with his wife, Jenny; there he became a communist and met his lifelong friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels.

They published their revolutionary pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto, in 1848 and Marx moved to London a year later. He spent the rest of his life there - often in considerable poverty - while he wrote his magnum opus of political theory, Das Kapital. Karl Marx died in 1883.

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) was born in Concord, Massachusetts and educated at Harvard. He became a follower and a friend of Emerson, and described himself as a mystic and a transcendentalist.

Although he published only two books in his lifetime, Walden is a literary masterpeice and one of the most significant books of the nineteenth century.

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin (1809–19 April 1882) is considered the most important English naturalist of all time. He established the theories of natural selection and evolution.

His theory of evolution was published as On the Origin of Species in 1859, and by the 1870s is was widely accepted as fact.

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