The Metaphysical Store - Descartes, Bacon, and Modern Philosophy

Descartes, Bacon,
and
Modern Philosophy

Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Professor Jeffrey Tlumak
Narrator: Lynn Redgrave
Length: 3 hours (Unabridged)
Download Price: $11.75
Format: Encoded Windows Media
© 2006 Blackstone Audio Inc

These two great seventeenth-century philosophers aimed to break free of oppressive traditions. Free scientific inquiry led them to skeptically question everything, though they also tried to reconcile science with religious faith.

Both Descartes and Bacon extolled the individual, arguing that the human mind can penetrate the deepest secrets of existence. Their ideas formulated the problems that would occupy philosophers for the next three hundred years.

The World of Philosophy series is a dramatic presentation, in understandable language, of the concerns, questions, interests, and overall outlook of the world's great philosophers and philosophical traditions. Special emphasis on clear and relevant explanations gives you a new arsenal of insights toward living a better life.

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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
-- Albert Einstein

"Come forth into the Light of things. Let Nature be your teacher."
-- William Wordsworth

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain and our heart is our temple. The philosophy is kindness."
-- Dalai Lama

"There is only one good...knowledge. There is only one evil... ignorance."
-- The Death of Socrates

"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."
-- Aristotle

"If we only do what is required of us, we are slaves. The moment we do more, we are free."
-- Cicero

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-- Albert Einstein

"If any man wish to write in a clear style let him be first clear in his thought and if any would write in a noble style let him first posess a noble soul."
-- Goethe

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
--Galileo Galilei