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Chapter 14 Works

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Richard III
Shakespeare, 1593, portrays Richard as a villain (Tudor propaganda?)
Novum Organum
Bacon, 1620, attacked scholastic belief that most truth was already discovered and only needed explanations
Paradise Lost
Milton, 1665, study of destructive qualities of pride, redeeming possibilities of humility
Principia Mathematica
Newton's masterpiece
Two Treatises of Government
Locke, opposed argument that rulers are absolute
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Locke, 1690, human mind has no innate ideas, what people know is not the world but the result of the interactions of the mind with the world
Leviathan
Hobbes, 1651, analyzed human nature
Pensees
Pascal, reflections on humankind
Pilgrim's Progress
Bunyan, 1678, story of Christian, Hopeful, and Faithful to the Celestial City
Discourse on Method
Descartes, 1637, wanted thinking to be founded on math
Don Quixote
Cervantes, satire on chivalric romance

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