Reformation and Religious Wars (1517-1648) [2010] (MP3 download) The Arts

Reformation and Religious Wars (1517-1648) [2010] (MP3 download) The ArtsBy Andrew Lewis In the 16th century, a reactionary religious movement threatened to interrupt the rebirth of reason in the Renaissance. The Reformation was an attempt to drag Europe back to the mysticism and asceticism of the Dark Ages. Although the leading Reformers, such as Martin Luther and John Calvin, were devout enemies of the growing rationality and secularism of the time, the Reformation's actual outcome was to fracture Christian Europe for

In this 1961 lecture

sweeping from pre-Revolutionary Russia to contemporary America

- From One Lonely Night by Mickey Spillane

” Selecting the essential points to answer in a discussion

literary and philosophical themes

This course offers an introduction to several important ideas in these treatises as a guide to deeper reading

Topics include: the method of philosophical detection (with examples from Ayn Rand’s nonfiction)

(It) is clear

—Richard Epstein

and the relationship between egoism and Rand’s identification of values as objective rather than intrinsic or subjective

Frank O’Connor

With perspicuity and wit