Early Modern Resources

Introduction

• Definitions & Characteristics of Modernity
• Early Modern Painters
• Aspects of Various Periods in the Western Tradition
• Four Models of Personhood
• Three Rival Methods of Pursuing Truth
• Kant's "What is Enlightenment" & Early Modern Rationality

Herbert

• Herbert The Temple An Introduction
• Herbert Struggle with the Noetic Failings of Poetry and Wit

Caravaggio

• Individual Personality and the Drama of Personal Faith

Descartes

• The Letters of Descartes Study Questions
• Seventeenth-Century Philosophy and the Idea of God

Moliere

• Moliere & The Nature of Humor
• Moliere's Defense of Comedy
• Early Modern Family Life
• Characteristics of Tragedy and Comedy
• Victim and Victor

Early Modern Science

• Important Events in Early Modern Science & Early Scientific Method
• The Scientific Method: An Overview
• Interesting Critique and Reevaluation of the Scientific Method (website)

Vico

• Introduction to Giambattista Vico Part 1
• New Science Frontpiece
• Introduction to Vico Part II Metahistory and Natural law

Early Modern Religion

• Early Modern Views I (17th-18th Century)
• Theological Controversies, Development, and the Response of John Henry Newman (Early Modern Views of God II)

Early Modern Politics

• Early Modern Political Theory
• Internet Modern History Sourcebook  (weblink)

Early Modern Aesthetics

• Shifts in Early Modern Aesthetics

Voltaire & Pope

• Voltaire's Complete Works (searchable French texts)
• The Nature of Satire 
• Voltaire's  Poem on the Lisbon Disaster  (optional)
• Outline for  Essay on Man  Selections
• Theodicy and Pope's  Essay on Man
• Leibniz's  Theodicy

Edwards

• An Overview of Edwards' Thought
• Early Edwards
• Some Basic Views of Edwards
• Edwards and the Puritan Sermon
• "Heaven, A World of Love" (a sermon)
• Select Sermons of Edwards (website)
• Edwards Resource Page (website)

Early Modern Economics

• Early Modern Economic Theory
• Jean-Baptiste Colbert, "Memorandum on Trade" (weblink-optional)
• Ricardo, "Iron Law of Wages" (weblink)
• Theological Reflections on Capitalism and Justice

Gender & Race

• The Bible & Slavery

Nineteenth-Century Sources

Newman

• John Henry Newman Resources (website)
• An Overview of the Thought of John Henry Newman
• Online Texts of Newman's Works (website)
• Apologia Chapters I & II
• Apologia  Chapters III & IV.1
• Apologia  Chapters IV.2 & V
• The Structure of the  Apologia
• Theological Controversies, Development, and the Response of John Henry Newman (Early Modern Views of God II)
• The Thirty-Nine Articles (Victorian Web)

Darwin

• Charles Darwin Overview (website)

Nietzsche

• Nietzsche's Great Reversal
• Nietzsche's Attack on Christian Theism
• Nietzsche and the Problem of Evil Redefined