- I. THE MODERN PROJECT: SIGNIFICANCE
- A. Basic Themes
- B. Outlines and Study Guides
- Introduction To Philosophy
- C. Readings
- 1. "The Apostle Of Our Time" from Thomas Aquinas by Jacques Maritain
- 2. Jacques Maritain, Education at the Crossroads
- 3. Church in modern world - Gaudium et spes
- 4. Introductory Statement - The Situation Of Men In The Modern World
- 5. Remarks By Alexandr Solzhenitsyn "On The Crisis In The West"
- 6. "On Anthropocentric Humanism"
- II. THE MODERN PROJECT: ORIGIN AND SCOPE
- A. Basic Themes
- B. Outlines and Study Guides
- 1. Major Figures
- 2. Major Concepts
- 3. Three Waves of Modernity
- 4. Study Guide And Outline For C.S. Lewis Abolition Of Man Chap 3
- C. READINGS
- 1. Swift, "Battle Between Ancient and Modern Books"
- 2. Rene Descartes - Discourse on Method
- 3. Bacon, "The Great Instauration"
- III. FOUNDING THE MODERN PROJECT: CARTESIAN DOUBT
- A. Basic Themes
- B. Outlines and Study Guides
- 1. Descartes Basics
- 2. Study Guide Descartes' Discourse On Method
- 3. Study Guide On Descartes' Meditations
- C. Readings
- 1. Jacques Maritain, The Dream of Descartes
- 2. "The Ancient Knowledge is Useless"
- 3. "The Ancient Knowledge is Dubious"
- 4. Jacques Maritain on the effects of Descartes' Philosophy
- IV. FOUNDING THE MODERN PROJECT: CARTESIAN DUALISM
- A. BASIC THEMES
- B. Outlines and Study Guides
- 1. Descartes' Meditations I and II
- 2. Schematic of Cartesian Philosophy
- C. Readings
- 1. Descartes
- 2. Maritain on Descartes
- V. THE POLITICAL SWEEP OF THE MODERN PROJECT: HOBBES
- A. Basic Themes
- B. STUDY GUIDES AND OUTLINES
- 1. HOBBES' LEVIATHAN Questions for Reading and Review
- 2. Outline For Hobbes, The Leviathan
- C. Readings
- 1. Hobbes, "Six lessons to the Professors of the Mathematics"
- 2. Hobbes, De Corpore politico
- 3. Hobbes, Vita carmine expressa
- 4. Hobbes, Leviathan
- 5. Hobbes, "On Body"
- 6. George Grant - "English Speaking Justice"
- VI. THE RELIGIOUS SWEEP OF THE PROJECT: SPINOZA AND PASCAL
- A. Basic Themes
- B. Outlines and Study Guides
- C. Readings
- 1. Langan on Spinoza
- 2. Lewis White Beck on Spinoza
- 3. Pascal on Man's disproportion
- VII. METAPHYSICAL MODERATION? LOCKE'S ESSAY
- A. Basic Themes
- B. Outlines and Study Guides
- John Locke Questions on epistemology for Review
- C. Readings
- 1. Essay 2.13.27
- 2. Essay 2.28.14
- 3. Essay 2.28.7
- 4. Essay 2.21.55
- VIII. POLITICAL MODERATION? LOCKE'S SECOND TREATISE
- A. Basic Themes
- B. Outlines and Study Guides
- C. Readings
- 1. Redemptor Hominis, #21
- 2. Second Treatise #3
- 3. Second Treatise #4
- 4. Second Treatise #6
- 5. Second Treatise #7
- 6. Second Treatise #8
- 7. Second Treatise #11
- 8. Second Treatise #12
- 9. Second Treatise #16
- 10. Second Treatise #17
- IX. RADICALIZING THE PROJECT: HUME AND ROUSSEAU
- A. Basic Themes
- B. Outlines and Study Guides
- 1. Outline of Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- 2. QUESTIONS ON HUME
- C. Readings
- 1. David Hume - The Project
- 2. On Hume's Character
- X. METAPHYSICAL SALIENCE OF THE MODERN PROJECT: KANT ON KNOWLEDGE
- A. Basic Themes
- B. Outlines and Study Guides
- 1. Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
- 2. Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
- C. Readings
- 1. Kant, Preface to the Second Edition of The Critique of Pure Reason
- 2. Kant, Idea for a Universal History, III & IV
- XI. ETHICAL SALIENCE OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY: KANT ON ETHICS
- A. Basic Themes
- B. Outlines and Study Guides
- Kennington on Kant's The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
- C. Readings
- Kant on "The Existence of God as a Postulate of Pure Practical Reason"
- XII. EVALUATING THE MODERN PROJECT: TOWARDS AN INTEGRAL HUMANISM
- READING
- Maritain's "Scholasticism and Politics"
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