Tag: Enlightenment

Free Download Vladislav Rjéoutski, "Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe: Education, Sociability, and Governance "
English | ISBN: 9462984719 | 2018 | 234 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This multinational collection of essays challenges the traditional image of a monolingual Ancient Regime in Enlightenment Europe, both East and West. Its archival research explores the important role played by selective language use in social life and in the educational provisions in the early constitution of modern society. A broad range of case studies show how language was viewed and used symbolically by social groups – ranging from the nobility to the peasantry – to develop, express, and mark their identities.

Free Download Europe against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past by Matthijs Lok
English | June 23, 2023 | ISBN: 0198872135 | 384 pages | EPUB | 1.84 Mb
Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and counter-enlightened conservative nationalists extolling the virtues of homelands threatened by globalised elites and mass migration. This study seeks to uncover the roots of historically informed ideas of Europe, while at the same time underlining the fundamental differences between the writings of the older counter-revolutionary Europeanists and their self-appointed successors and detractors in the twenty-first century. In the decades around 1800, the era of the French Revolution, counter-revolutionary authors from all over Europe defended European civilisation against the onslaught of nationalist revolutionaries, bent on the destruction of the existing order, or so they believed. In opposition to the new revolutionary world of universal and abstract principles, the counter-revolutionary publicists proclaimed the concept of a gradually developing European society and political order, founded on a set of historical and – ultimately divine – institutions that had guaranteed Europe’s unique freedom, moderation, diversity, and progress since the fall of the Roman Empire. These counter-revolutionary Europeanists drew on the cosmopolitan Enlightenment and simultaneously criticized its alleged revolutionary legacy. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these ideas of European history and civilisation were rediscovered and adapted to new political contexts, shaping in manifold ways our contested idea of European history and memory until today.

Free Download From the Dark Ages to the Enlightenment: The Birth of Modernity by David J. Collins, Learn25
English | July 28, 2017 | ISBN: B0749YWZYX | 8 hours and 27 minutes | M4B 64 Kbps | 234 Mb
Join Georgetown University’s Fr. David Collins, SJ, in an amazing tour of Western civilization.
Where did our modern notions about God, science, and humanity come from?
Begin in the Mediterranean world of late antiquity, with the decline of Rome and the ascent of Christianity. Explore vigorous Christian debates over the appropriation of pagan thought along with the implications of these debates for medieval thinking. Follow the lively arguments over the origin of the cosmos, the laws of nature, and the extent of God’s direct role in natural changes and miraculous events.

Free Download Dispatches from the Mind: The Enlightenment Papers about All That Is by Kevin Scott King
English | October 12, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CKYFR15R | 268 pages | EPUB | 3.55 Mb
This book recounts the extraordinary experiences that happened to a seemingly conventional housewife and mother of three. On a day in early 1974, Linda Shields King sat down to compose a letter to her parents when, without warning, her first automatic writings ensued. The letter she wanted to write became a lesson intended for her. It began with the words "All that is is of the Mind. The Mind is the Reality," followed another day by "The Mind Is. All else is not." From then on, the floodgates opened. Intriguing messages and vivid dreams taught the nature of reality, the Universe’s creation, and the soul’s ultimate goal, revealing a long-forgotten spiritual quest.

Free Download Harry Redner, "The Triumph and Tragedy of the Intellectuals: Evil, Enlightenment, and Death"
English | ISBN: 1412864100 | 2016 | 340 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This fourth instalment of Harry Redner’s tetralogy on the history of civilization argues that intellectuals have a brilliant past, a dubious present, and possibly no future. He contends that the philosophers of the seventeenth century laid the ground for the intellectuals of the eighteenth century, the Age of Enlightenment. They, in turn, promoted a fundamental transformation of human consciousness: they literally intellectualized the world. The outcome was the disenchantment of the world in all its cultural dimensions: in art, religion, ethics, politics, and philosophy.

Free Download The French Revolution: From Enlightenment to Tyranny (Audiobook)
English | April 09, 2019 | ASIN: B07Q58VGM2 | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 52m | 670 MB
Author: Ian Davidson | Narrator: Clive Chafer
A vital and illuminating look at this profoundly important (and often perplexing) historical moment, by former Financial Times chief foreign affairs columnist Ian Davidson
The French Revolution casts a long shadow, one that reaches into our own time and influences our debates on freedom, equality, and authority. Yet it remains an elusive, perplexing historical event. Its significance morphs according to the sympathies of the viewer, who may see it as a series of gory tableaux, a regrettable slide into uncontrolled anarchy – or a radical reshaping of the political landscape.

Free Download From the Dark Ages to the Enlightenment: The Birth of Modernity (Audiobook)
English | July 28, 2017 | ASIN: B0749YWZYX | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 27m | 234 MB
Author and Narrator: David J. Collins
Join Georgetown University’s Fr. David Collins, SJ, in an amazing tour of Western civilization.
Where did our modern notions about God, science, and humanity come from?

Free Download The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History
by J. C. D. Clark
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0198916280 | 582 pages | True PDF | 13.16 MB

Free Download Scepticism in the Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment, Lumières, Aufklärung By Sébastien Charles (auth.), Sébastien Charles, Plínio J. Smith (eds.)
2013 | 381 Pages | ISBN: 9400748094 | PDF | 3 MB
The Age of Enlightenment has often been portrayed as a dogmatic period on account of the veritable worship of reason and progress that characterized Eighteenth Century thinkers. Even today the philosophes are considered to have been completely dominated in their thinking by an optimism that leads to dogmatism and ultimately rationalism. However, on closer inspection, such a conception seems untenable, not only after careful study of the impact of scepticism on numerous intellectual domains in the period, but also as a result of a better understanding of the character of the Enlightenment. As Giorgio Tonelli has rightly observed: "the Enlightenment was indeed the Age of Reason but one of the main tasks assigned to reason in that age was to set its own boundaries." Thus, given the growing number of works devoted to the scepticism of Enlightenment thinkers, historians of philosophy have become increasingly aware of the role played by scepticism in the Eighteenth Century, even in those places once thought to be most given to dogmatism, especially Germany. Nevertheless, the deficiencies of current studies of Enlightenment scepticism are undeniable. In taking up this question in particular, the present volume, which is entirely devoted to the scepticism of the Enlightenment in both its historical and geographical dimensions, seeks to provide readers with a revaluation of the alleged decline of scepticism. At the same time it attempts to resituate the Pyrrhonian heritage within its larger context and to recapture the fundamental issues at stake. The aim is to construct an alternative conception of Enlightenment philosophy, by means of philosophical modernity itself, whose initial stages can be found herein. ​

Free Download Cornelius Christopher, "ONEO: Enlightenment of Eternal Life, The Acceptance of I, and One With Yourself."
English | ASIN : B09SL16PF1 | 2022 | 429 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Cornelius Christopher courageously opens up his life to show how we urgently need to change the way we treat one another and, more importantly, ourselves.