Channel Title: Age of Enlightenment Channel Description: This channel has little scraps of philosophical and other writings from the 16th through the eighteenth century. Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, John Locke, Michel de Montaigne, Cotton Mather, King James Bible, Gotthold Empriam Lessing, Voltaire, Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Emmanuel Swedenborg, Jean de la Fountain, Friedrich Schiller, Daniel de Foe, Ludvig Holberg, Fenelon, Montesquieu, Blackstone and any others I can find. <video> Giordano Bruno by Walter Pater (1889) Description: Walter Pater wrote this article about Giordano Bruno in The Fortnightly Review of 1889. I found it interesting. Good job from Librivox volunteer Availle. </video> <video> The Life of Saint Benedict 2 March AD 480 – 21 March AD 548 Description: St. Benedict of Nursia was a sixth century monk and founder of monastic communities. His main achievement, the "Rule of St. Benedict," became one of the most influential monastic rules in the West. St. Benedict is sometimes called the founder of Western monasticism. One of the only ancient accounts of St. Benedict is found in the second volume of Pope Gregory I's four-book Dialogues, thought to have been written in 593. Gregory's account of Benedict's life provides a spiritual portrait of the gentle, disciplined abbot. Gregory explains that his information came from what he considered the best sources: a handful of Benedict's disciples who lived with him and witnessed his various miracles. Gregory's Life of St. Benedict is an authentic medieval hagiography cast as a conversation between the Pope and his deacon Peter, designed to teach spiritual lessons. - Summary by Patrick Randall (adapted from Wikipedia articles on St. Benedict and Gregory's Dialogues) </video> <video> The Cynocephali by Ctesias 5th Century BC Library of Photius Description: Saint Photius read a book by Ctesias and included it in his report about his library. Ctesias discussed the cochineal beetle as well as the do-headed Cynocephali. Saint Photios the Great lived from 810-893 AD. </video> <video> John Calvin on Hebrews 13:13 Description: John Calvin 1509-1564 preached this sermon based on Hebrews 13:13. </video> <video> The Excursion by William Wordsworth 1814 Description: Begins at 40:30 William Wordsworth wanted to write a super long poem called The Recluse. The Prelude was written but never published during the author's lifetime. It was published in 1850. The Excursion was the second part of the poem and was published in 1814. Wordsworth lived from 1770-1850. The poem features the poet, wanderer, solitary, and pastor. Here is the text - Beginnig on page 526. https://archive.org/details/poemsofwilliamwo01word/page/525/mode/1up </video> <video> The Odyssey Book XI by Homer c 750 bc Description: Homer has Ulysses meet the ghost of Theban Teiresias for a prophecy. There at the city of the Cimmerians he met a host of ghosts. This is his visit to the dead from Book XI of Homer's Odyssey. </video> <video> The Heavenly Christmas Tree by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Description: Dostoyevsky wrote this story in 1876. It has also been called The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree. </video> <video> Nietzsche's Apollo or Dionysus by A R Orage 1906 Description: Apollo or Dionysus? Why did the Greeks develop Tragic Art? Alfred Richard Orage wrote about Nietzsche's take on the question in 1906.The Dionysian movement was revolutionary, irreligious, immoral, barbaric, and anarchic. The Apollan counter movement was conservative in nature. Apollo stands for Form as against Dionysus for Life; for Matter as against Energy; for the Human as against the Super- human. Apollo is always on the side of the formed, the definite, the restrained, the rational; but Dionysus is the power that destroys forms, that leads the definite into the infinite, the unrestrained, the tumultuous and passionate. Both Orage and Nietzsche see this as an everlasting battle. </video> <video> The Epicure by Anacreon 582-485 BC Description: The epicurean has different ideas about life than the stoic has. Anacreon put the difference well in this poem. </video> <video> To Charlotte by Johann Goethe Description: Johann Goethe wrote this poem in honor of Charlotte - He had relations with Charlotte Buff as well as Charlotte Von Stein. </video> <video> An Essay on Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria 1764 Description: On Crimes and Punishments was the first critical analysis of capital punishment that demanded its abolition. The book was read by all the luminaries of the day, including, in the United States, by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. </video> <video> Measure for Measure by Shakespeare 1604 Description: William Shakespeare penned this Christian comedy in 1604. He published King Lear 1605 and Othello in 1603. Michael Sugrue called him a switch hitter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLkENzh_ma8 </video> <video> The Lily and the Naughty Bird by Kierkegaard Description: Soren Kierkegaard published this short story or parable in his 1847 book Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits. It was translated into English in 1993. I upload it for educational purposes. </video> <video> Dr John Dee 1527-1608 Description: This is a little video about the Elizabethan mystic and scholar John Dee. The book was written by Gertrude Hort and published in 1922. Dee was a good scholar and advisor to Queen Elizabeth. Hort did a good job presenting him to the reading public. </video> <video> The Rights of Women by Anthony Trollope 1862 Description: We all know that the subject which appears above as the title of this chapter is a very favourite subject in America. It is, I hope, a very favourite subject in England also, and I am inclined to think has been so for many years past. The rights of women, as contradistinguished from the wrongs of women, has perhaps been the most precious of the legacies left to us by the feudal ages. How amidst the rough darkness of old Teuton rule women began to receive that respect which is now their dearest right, is one of the most interesting studies of history. It came, I take it, chiefly from their own conduct. North America Vol 1 1862 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1865 </video>

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This channel has little scraps of philosophical and other writings from the 16th through the eighteenth century. Rene Descartes, Isaac Newton, John Locke, Michel de Montaigne, Cotton Mather, King James Bible, Gotthold Empriam Lessing, Voltaire, Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Emmanuel Swedenborg, Jean de la Fountain, Friedrich Schiller, Daniel de Foe, Ludvig Holberg, Fenelon, Montesquieu, Blackstone and any others I can find.

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