Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of ...
Continue Reading →Pierre Bayle was one of the most important sceptical thinkers of the seventeenth century. His work was a major influence on the development of the ...
Continue Reading →Philosophical Commentary deals with church and state, religious toleration, legal enforcement of religious practices, and religiously motivated violence. Pierre Bayle (1647–1706) was a Protestant philosopher ...
Continue Reading →Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. His works argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation ...
Continue Reading →Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of ...
Continue Reading →The Discourses on Livy (Italian: Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio, literally “Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy”) is a work ...
Continue Reading →Erasmus’ Adagia has been called ‘one of the world’s biggest bedside books,’ and certainly the more than 4000 proverbs and maxims gathered and commented on ...
Continue Reading →Of Being and the Unity (Latin: De ente et uno), has explanations of several passages in Moses, Plato and Aristotle. It is an attempted reconciliation ...
Continue Reading →Giordano Bruno’s The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in London between 1584 and ...
Continue Reading →The first complete modern translation of Bruno’s “De Imaginum Signorum et Idearum Composition,” first published in 1591, a complex multilevel work that incorporates astrology, hermetic, ...
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