Birth of the Modern Mind: The Intellectual History of the 17th and 18th Centuries

Compilation by Alan Charles Kors

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  1. 1.
    Introduction — Intellectual History and Conceptual Change
  2. 2.
    The Dawn of the 17th Century — Aristotelian Scholasticism
  3. 3.
    The New Vision of Francis Bacon
  4. 4.
    The New Astronomy and Cosmology
  5. 5.
    Descartes's Dream of Perfect Knowledge
  6. 6.
    The Specter of Thomas Hobbes
  7. 7.
    Skepticism and Jansenism — Blaise Pascal
  8. 8.
    Newton's Discovery
  9. 9.
    The Newtonian Revolution
  10. 10.
    John Locke — The Revolution in Knowledge
  11. 11.
    The Lockean Moment
  12. 12.
    Skepticism and Calvinism — Pierre Bayle
  13. 13.
    The Moderns — The Generation of 1680-1715
  14. 14.
    Introduction to Deism
  15. 15.
    The Conflict Between Deism and Christianity
  16. 16.
    Montesquieu and the Problem of Relativism
  17. 17.
    Voltaire — Bringing England to France
  18. 18.
    Bishop Joseph Butler and God's Providence
  19. 19.
    The Skeptical Challenge to Optimism — David Hume
  20. 20.
    The Assault Upon Philosophical Optimism — Voltaire
  21. 21.
    The Philosophes — The Triumph of the French Enlightenment
  22. 22.
    Beccaria and Enlightened Reform
  23. 23.
    Rousseau's Dissent
  24. 24.
    Materialism & Naturalism — The Boundaries of the Enlightenment

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