Literature:
Read Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God".
A slow but interesting read because it is in dialect.
Film:
Watched Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon. I'll give this movie five stars. I loved the cinematography, the different accounts and the lack of a definite answer to the mystery.
CD Ideas that Shaped Mankind
Lecture 10 - The Enlightenment
East/West exchange of ideas 18th Century Jesuit accounts of China, India and Japan
Values of Enlightenment: Denis Diderot's Encyclopedie - How to make the world work practically.
Progress was absolutely fundamental.
Free will to do good.
.Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations - everyone seeks their own best advantage. Prosperity would be maximized if people were free.
.William Godwin proposed dismantling of the state.
Struggle between constitutionalism and absolutism.
Rights of the citizens guaranteed by law -- inalienable rights of humankind
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