Tag: Enlightenment

Free Download The Mother Course Of The Graduated Path Of Enlightenment
Published 10/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 2.35 GB | Duration: 0h 59m
The Unusual And The Most On Point Meditation Course.

Free Download Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B00FTWM4U8 | 2013 | 25 hours and 16 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 698 MB
Author: S. Frederick Starr
Narrator: Kevin Stillwell
In this rich and sweeping history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia’s medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds – remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly all of these figures wrote in Arabic, they were long assumed to have been Arabs. In fact, they were from Central Asia – drawn from the Persianate and Turkic peoples of a region that today extends from Kazakhstan southward through Afghanistan, and from the easternmost province of Iran through Xinjiang, China. Lost Enlightenment recounts how, between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in trade and economic development, the size and sophistication of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the advancement of knowledge in many fields.

Free Download Paul Wood, Alexander Broadie, Anita Guerrini, "The Scottish Enlightenment: Essays in Reinterpretation"
English | 2000 | pages: 413 | ISBN: 1580460658 | PDF | 66,9 mb
A collection of essays dealing with the history of the Scottish Enlightenment, its connection with the European Enlightenment in general, such major figures as Francis Hutcheson, Thomas Reid, and David Hume, and the making of theScottish identity.

Free Download John Jebb and the Enlightenment Origins of British Radicalism By Anthony Page
2003 | 309 Pages | ISBN: 0275977757 | PDF | 40 MB
Examines the origins of British radicalism through the ideas and actions of a leading Enlightenment figure during the period of the American Revolution.

Free Download Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh’s Civic Development, 1660-1750 By Murray Pittock
2018 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1474416594 | PDF | 62 MB
This is a study of Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided by urban innovation and Smart City theory, it pinpoints the distinctive features that made Enlightenment in the Scottish capital possible. In a journey packed with evidence and incident, Murray Pittock explores various civic networks – such as the newspaper and printing businesses, the political power of the gentry and patronage networks, as well as the pub and coffee-house life – as drivers of cultural change. His analysis reveals that the attributes of civic development, which lead to innovation and dynamism, were at the heart of what made Edinburgh a smart city of 1700.

Free Download Michael Hunter, "Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment: The English and Scottish Experience"
English | ISBN: 1009268775 | 2023 | 280 pages | PDF | 1315 KB
Anxiety about the threat of atheism was rampant in the early modern period, yet fully documented examples of openly expressed irreligious opinion are surprisingly rare. England and Scotland saw only a handful of such cases before 1750, and this book offers a detailed analysis of three of them. Thomas Aikenhead was executed for his atheistic opinions at Edinburgh in 1697; Tinkler Ducket was convicted of atheism by the Vice-Chancellor’s court at the University of Cambridge in 1739; whereas Archibald Pitcairne’s overtly atheist tract, Pitcairneana, though evidently compiled very early in the eighteenth century, was first published only in 2016. Drawing on these, and on the better-known apostacy of Christopher Marlowe and the Earl of Rochester, Michael Hunter argues that such atheists showed real ‘assurance’ in publicly promoting their views. This contrasts with the private doubts of Christian believers, and this book demonstrates that the two phenomena are quite distinct, even though they have sometimes been wrongly conflated.

Free Download Richard B. Sher, "Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Moderate Literati of Edinburgh"
English | 2015 | pages: 368 | ISBN: 1474407439 | PDF | 9,7 mb
Since its original publication in 1985, Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment has come to be regarded as a classic work in eighteenth-century Scottish history and Enlightenment studies. It depicts Hugh Blair, Alexander Carlyle, Adam Ferguson, John Home, and William Robertson as an intimate coterie that played a central role in the Scottish Enlightenment, seen here not only as an intellectual but as a cultural movement. These men were among the leaders in the University of Edinburgh, in the Moderate party in the Church of Scotland, and in Edinburgh’s thriving clubs. They used their institutional influence and their books, plays, sermons, and pamphlets to promulgate the tenets of Moderatism, including polite Presbyterianism, Christian Stoicism, civic humanism, social and political conservatism, and the tolerant, cosmopolitan values of the international Enlightenment. Using a wide variety of sources and an interdisciplinary methodology, this collective biography portrays these "Moderate literati" as zealous activists for the cause in which they believed, ranging from support for a Scots militia, Ossian, and Roman Catholic relief to opposition to the Jacobite rebellion of 1745 and the American and French Revolutions.

Free Download Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment edited by Ritchie Robertson, Laurence Brockliss
English | December 20, 2016 | ISBN: 0198783930 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 0.5 MB
Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) was recognized as Britain’s most distinguished historian of ideas. Many of his essays discussed thinkers of what this book calls the ‘long Enlightenment’ (from Vico in the eighteenth century to Marx and Mill in the nineteenth, with Machiavelli as a precursor). Yet he is particularly associated with the concept of the ‘Counter-Enlightenment’, comprising those thinkers (Herder, Hamann, and even Kant) who in Berlin’s view reacted against the Enlightenment’s naive rationalism, scientism and progressivism, its assumption that human beings were basically homogeneous and could be rendered happy by the remorseless application of scientific reason.

Free Download Ryan Kurczak, "Kriya Yoga: Continuing the Lineage of Enlightenment"
English | ISBN: 1478214368 | 2012 | 196 pages | AZW3 | 207 KB
Meditation routines, Ayurvedic lifestyle recommendations, and commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are included in this work to encourage Self-realization and inner tranquility. Skillful meditation, healthy living, and realization of our Eternal Self are the practices of Kriya Yoga, and it is through our own consistent practice of Patanjali’s methods that the lineage of enlightenment continues.

Free Download Denis Lacorne, "The Limits of Tolerance: Enlightenment Values and Religious Fanaticism "
English | ISBN: 0231187149 | 2019 | 296 pages | AZW3 | 655 KB
The modern notion of tolerance―the welcoming of diversity as a force for the common good―emerged in the Enlightenment in the wake of centuries of religious wars. First elaborated by philosophers such as John Locke and Voltaire, religious tolerance gradually gained ground in Europe and North America. But with the resurgence of fanaticism and terrorism, religious tolerance is increasingly being challenged by frightened publics.