Tag: Enlightenment

Montesquieu

(1689–1755) Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu Works: • Esprit des lois (French) • Le temple de Gnide (French) • Lettres persanes, tome I (French) • Lettres persanes, tome II (French) • Persialaisia kirjeitä (Finnish) Born…

Baruch Spinoza

Benedictus de Spinoza (1632–1677) Works: • A Theologico-Political Treatise, Part 1 (English) • A Theologico-Political Treatise, Part 2 (English) • A Theologico-Political Treatise, Part 3 (English) • A Theologico-Political Treatise, Part 4 (English) • Ethica (Dutch) • Ethics (English) •…

Giambattista Vico

(1668–1744) Giovan Battista Vico Works: • Principes de la Philosophie de l’Histoire traduits de la ‘Scienza nuova’ (French) Born June 23 1668 Napoli (Italia) Died January 23 1744 Napoli (Italia) Occupation Historian Humanist Occupation Jurist Philosopher Occupation Rhetorician Writer

Giacomo Leopardi

(1798–1837) Count Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi Works: • Essays and Dialogues (English) • I Canti (Italian) • The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi (English) • The Poems of Leopardi (English) Born June 29 1798 Recanati (Italia) Died…

René Descartes

(1596–1650) Renatus Cartesius Works: • A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences (English) • Betrachtungen über die Grundlagen der Philosophie (German) • Discours de la méthode (French) •…

Voltaire

(1694–1778) François-Marie Arouet Works: • A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (English) • A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 2 (English) • A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 3 (English) • A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 4 (English) • A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (English) •…

Denis Diderot

(1713–1784) Works: • Ceci n’est pas un conte (French) • Entretien d’un père avec ses enfants (French) • L’oiseau blanc: conte bleu (French) • Jacques le fataliste et son maître (French) • La religieuse (French) • Le neveu de Rameau…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(1712–1778) Works: • A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (English) • Emile (English) • Émile eli Kasvatuksesta (Finnish) • Les Rêveries du Promeneur Solitaire (French) • Quotes and Images From The Confessions (English)…

Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban

(1561–1626) Sir Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban also known as Lord Verulam Works: • Bacon’s Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients (English) • Filosofiset mietelmät (Finnish) • Novum Organum (English) • Of Gardens (English) • The Advancement of Learning…

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

(1732–1799) Works: • L’autre Tartuffe, ou La mère coupable (French) • Le barbier de Séville (French) • La Folle Journée ou le Mariage de Figaro (French) • Sevillan parturi eli Turha varovaisuus (Finnish) Beaumarchais in Film: Beaumarchais, l’insolent 1996 Director: Édouard…