https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/Recent content in The Enlightenment on Teddy Rook Bookhttps://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpghttps://teddyrookbook.com/img/share.jpgHugoenhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/locke-government-and-toleration/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/locke-government-and-toleration/People have rights to life, liberty and property, government rests on their consent, and belief can't be forced. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/locke-human-understanding/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/locke-human-understanding/The mind starts as blank paper, and every idea comes from experience: sensation and reflection. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/berkeley-principles/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/berkeley-principles/To be is to be perceived: a bishop argues there is no matter apart from minds. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/hume-enquiry/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/hume-enquiry/We never see one thing make another happen; we only learn to expect it. What, then, can we know? The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/kant-critique-of-pure-reason/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/kant-critique-of-pure-reason/What can reason know? Kant answers that the mind shapes experience by its own forms of space, time and cause. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/kant-moral-philosophy/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/kant-moral-philosophy/Act only on a rule you could want everyone to follow, and treat people always as ends, never only as means. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/kant-critique-of-judgment/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/kant-critique-of-judgment/What happens when we call something beautiful or sublime, and how we judge purpose in living things. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/swift-gullivers-travels/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/swift-gullivers-travels/A ship's doctor among tiny people, giants, floating scientists and talking horses, each a mirror for England. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/voltaire-candide/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/voltaire-candide/A young man taught that all is for the best meets one disaster after another, and ends by tending his garden. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/diderot-rameaus-nephew/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/diderot-rameaus-nephew/A philosopher talks in a Paris café with a brilliant, shameless musician who mocks every virtue. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/montesquieu-spirit-of-laws/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/montesquieu-spirit-of-laws/Laws fit a people's climate, customs and government, and freedom needs separate powers that check each other. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/rousseau-discourses/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/rousseau-discourses/How did inequality begin? Rousseau tells a story of people in a state of nature and the first fence. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/rousseau-social-contract/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/rousseau-social-contract/'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains': a government is legitimate only by the general will. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/smith-wealth-of-nations/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/smith-wealth-of-nations/The pin factory and the division of labor, markets and prices, and what makes nations grow rich. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/american-state-papers/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/american-state-papers/The founding documents: a declaration of rights, a first league of states, and the Constitution that replaced it. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/federalist-papers/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/federalist-papers/Eighty-five newspaper essays explaining and defending the new Constitution, from factions to the courts. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/gibbon-decline-and-fall-1/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/gibbon-decline-and-fall-1/Rome at its height under the good emperors, and the slow troubles that followed. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/gibbon-decline-and-fall-2/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/gibbon-decline-and-fall-2/The empire in the east, the rise of new powers, and the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/boswell-life-of-johnson/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/boswell-life-of-johnson/The great biography: a young Scot follows the dictionary maker for twenty years and writes down his talk. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladderhttps://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/lavoisier-elements-of-chemistry/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://teddyrookbook.com/great-books/the-enlightenment/lavoisier-elements-of-chemistry/Careful weighing shows that matter is neither made nor lost, oxygen explains burning, and chemistry gets its new names. The Enlightenment · Great Books Ladder