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Shaping the European Mind
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Shaping the European Mind : Intellectual Trends in Modern Europe - from the Renaissance to the 20th Century |
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Edited by Paul Dykes & John C. Powell |
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Intellectual Trends in Modern Europe - from the Renaissance to the 20th Century
This book contains selected passages from significant works by some of the most influential thinkers in European history.
- Machiavelli
- Descartes
- Marx
- Luther
- Spinoza
- Engels
- Calvin
- Kant
- Darwin
- Voltaire
- De Tocqueville
- Zwingli
- Rousseau
- Bismarck
- Locke
- Paine
- Lenin
- Newton
- Burke
- Churchill
- More . . .
Shaping the European Mind
The biographical sketches that accompany these documents are designed to help students place each source in its proper context. Readers are urged to contemplate why, when, where, and how these words were first delivered. In some cases students may discern that the cares and concerns of those who have gone before us are not substantially different from our own concerns. It is the aim of the text for readers to see how these words have influenced the modern world.
is designed to introduce readers to some of the main currents of European thought from the Renaissance to the modern era. While not comprehensive, it includes some of the most influential thinkers of the modern era. It is the opinion of the editors that exposure to these primary sources will enhance oneÕs study of European history. The editors take full responsibility for any omissions that have occurred or for any errors that have taken place in the editing process. |
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- Introduction ix
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- PART ONE 1
- MACHIAVELLI 3
- The Prince (1532)
- I - Of Princedoms Won by Merit 5
- II - Of Princedoms Won Otherwise than by Merit 6
- III - Of Maintaining A Princedom 8
- IV - Of Artifices 10
- ERASMUS 12
- Praise of Folly (1511) 14
- LUTHER 16
- Martin Luther Discovers Justification by Faith 18
- Luther Calls on the German Nobility to Reform The Church 20
- German Peasants Protest Rising Feudal Exactions 21
- CALVIN 23
- Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion 25
- HENRY VIII 27
- The Act of Supremacy (1534) 29
- The King's Grace to be Authorized Supreme Head 29
- SIR THOMAS MORE 30
- Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) 32
- Of the Island of Utopia and the Customs of its People 32
- Of the Wars and the Religion of the Utopians 34
- ZWINGLI 37
- Zwingli Criticizes the Catholic Church 38
- LOYOLA 40
- Loyola's Rules for the Jesuits 41
- HENRY IV 43
- PART TWO 47
- Mercantilism 49
- JAMES I 50
- James I on the Divine Right of Kings 51
- CHARLES I 52
- The Parliament Petitions Charles I 54
- CROMWELL 55
- Description of Oliver Cromwell by the Earl of Clarendon 57
- The Execution of Charles I, (1649) 59
- HOBBES 61
- Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan 63
- I - Of Man 63
- II - Of Contract and Sovereignty 65
- III - The Natural Commonwealth 67
- IV - Of A Christian Commonwealth 70
- WILLIAM AND MARY 72
- The English Bill of Rights 74
- LOCKE 76
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 77
- I - The Nature of Simple Ideas 77
- II - Of Idea-Producing Qualities 79
- III - Various Faculties of the Mind 80
- IX - Our Knowledge of the Existence of Other Things 82
- RICHELIEU 85
- Richelieu's Political Will and Testament 86
- BOSSUET 88
- Bossuet on the Divine Right of Kings 89
- Saint Simon on Louis XIV 90
- LOUIS XIV 91
- Louis XIV on His Role as King 92
- PART THREE 93
- COPERNICUS 95
- Copernicus on the Movement of the Earth 96
- GALILEO 98
- Galileo on Science and the Bible (1615) 99
- BACON 101
- NEWTON 105
- Newton's Rules of Reasoning (1687) 107
- PASCAL 109
- Pascal on Thinking Creatures 110
- DESCARTES 111
- Descartes' Discourse on Methods 112
- I - The Aim of the Discourse 112
- II - The Intellectual Crises 113
- III - A Rule of Life 115
- IV - "I Think, Therefore I Am" 116
- V -Why I do not Publish ÔThe WorldÕ 119
- SPINOZA 122
- Spinoza's On the Improvement of the Understanding 123
- KANT 128
- Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals 129
- MONTESQUIEU 136
- Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws 138
- VOLTAIRE 140
- Voltaire on Religion 142
- Voltaire's Support of Enlightened Despotism 144
- ROUSSEAU 146
- Rousseau's The Social Contract (1726 148
- I - The Terms of the Compact 148
- II - The Sovereign and the Laws 150
- III - The Government 151
- SMITH 155
- PART FOUR 159
- Demands of the Third Estate 161
- The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789) 163
- BURKE 166
- Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution (1790) 167
- PAINE 168
- Paine's The Rights of Man (1790 and 1792) 169
- I - Natural and Civil Rights 169
- II - France and England Compared 171
- III - The Old and New Systems 173
- IV - The Reform of England 175
- WOLLSTONECRAFT 178
- Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792) 179
- The Consuls Declare the Revolution Over 181
- PART FIVE 183
- MALTHUS 185
- On the Principle of Population 185
- I-General Survey of the Checks to Population 185
- II-Population and the Subsistence Level 189
- III-Remedies Other Than Moral for Over-Population 190
- IV-Moral Restraint and Discriminate Charity 193
- MARX 196
- The Communist Manifesto (1848) 197
- ENGELS 201
- Engel's On the Plight of the Worker 202
- DE TOCQUEVILLE 203
- De Tocqueville on the June Revolution 204
- DARWIN 205
- Darwin's View of Nature 207
- BISMARCK 209
- The Ems Dispatch (1870) 211
- MAZZINI 213
- Mazzini Pleads for Italian Unity 214
- The Role of Race, by H.S. Chamberlain 215
- KIPLING 216
- Kipling Advises the Americans 217
- ZOLA 219
- MILL 224
- NIETZSCHE 234
- PART SIX 241
- LENIN 243
- The Fourteen Points 244
- LeninÕs April Thesis 248
- Lenin as Dictator 250
- MUSSOLINI 251
- CHURCHILL 256
- Churchill on the Munich Agreement 258
- Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech (1946) 259
- HITLER 261
- Nazi Racial Policy 262
- A Description of the Holocaust 264
- TRUMAN 266
- The Truman Doctrine (1947) 267
- KRUSCHEV 269
- Kruschev Denounces Stalin 271
- 50 Great Paintings 273
- 10 Great Composers 275
- 75 Words to Study History with 276
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| About the Author: |
Paul Dykes
Dr. John C. Powell
earned degrees at Oklahoma City University and Oklahoma State University. He is Dean of Faculty at Heritage Hall in Oklahoma City, where he teaches history, art history, and philosophy., B.A., M.A., studied at the University of Tulsa and at Stanford University. He began teaching in Tulsa in 1959 and currently teaches philosophy at Booker T. Washington High School, a magnet school in Tulsa. |
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2003 [ISBN: 1-58107-081-0; 288 pages soft cover; 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inch] |
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