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Manual of a Christian Knight
Manual of a Christian Knight – Desiderius Erasmus We get some sense of things which were moving deeply in Erasmus‘ life from his „Manual of a Christian Knight.“ We find here a characteristic criticism of religious forms taking the place of religious substance. We find a tremendous emphasis upon the intelligence which in no way […]
The Praise of Folly
The Praise of Folly – Desiderius Erasmus Erasmus reached England after a stay in Italy early in the summer of 1510. Soon afterwards, in Thomas More’s house at Bucklersbury, he rapidly wrote his famous satire, the Encomium Moriae, or „Praise of Folly,“ in which Folly celebrates her own praises as the great source of human […]
The Complaint of Peace
The Complaint of Peace – Desiderius Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus was a very human man. A humanist, who was no more humane than the rest of the wits and cynics of his time, there was in him a plenty of human weaknesses and uglinesses. Nevertheless he does strike occasionally a note that is genuinely human, universally […]
The Colloquies, Volume 2
The Colloquies, Volume 2 – Desiderius Erasmus Erasmus‘ services to a new way of learning took various forms. He wrote school-books, bringing out his view that boys were kept too long over grammar, and ought to begin reading some good author as soon as possible. His own „Colloquies“ were meant partly as models of colloquial […]
The Colloquies, Volume 1
The Colloquies, Volume 1 – Desiderius Erasmus Erasmus‘ services to a new way of learning took various forms. He wrote school-books, bringing out his view that boys were kept too long over grammar, and ought to begin reading some good author as soon as possible. His own „Colloquies“ were meant partly as models of colloquial […]
The Method, Meditations and Philosophy of Descartes
The Method, Meditations and Philosophy of Descartes – René Descartes This edition includes the quintessential works of Descartes, to whom modern learning is indebted for some of the most potent factors in its advancement. These are: in Mathematics, the invention of the Binomial Theorem and the application of Algebra to Geometry in the Analytical Geometry; […]
The Fable of the Bees
The Fable of the Bees – Bernard de Mandeville Mandeville’s philosophy gave great offence at the time, and has always been stigmatized as false, cynical and degrading. His main thesis is that the actions of men cannot be divided into lower and higher. In the Fable he shows a society possessed of all the virtues […]
Essential Writings
Essential Writings – Nicholas Barbon Nicholas Barbon was an English economist, physician, and financial speculator. He is widely conceived as one of the first proponents of the free market. This edition includes his most prominent essays: An Apology For The Builder A Discourse Of Trade A Discourse Concerning Coining The New Money Lighter Format: Paperback. […]
On the Law of War and Peace
On the Law of War and Peace – Hugo Grotius “On The Law of War and Peace” was translated into many languages, and most law schools adopted it as the basis of the right of nations. Princes and statesmen consulted the book, and just as Alexander the Great always had a copy of Homer’s ‘Iliad,’ […]
The Wisdom of the Ancients
The Wisdom of the Ancients – Sir Francis Bacon Bacon published this interesting little work in 1609. It contains thirty-one fables abounding with a union of deep thought and poetic beauty. In most fables he explains the common but erroneous supposition that knowledge and the conformity of the will, knowing and acting, are convertible terms. […]