Thinkers to Read

Renaissance

Bacon: empirical method

Enlightenment

Kant: Dare to know! Have the courage to use your intelligence

Rene Descartes: total reliance on reason. I think , therefore I am

Adam Smith

Rouseeau, "Social Contract"

Liberalism

Natinalism

Romanticism

Communism and socialism

Realism

Charles Dickens

Eduard Bernstein "Evolutionary Socialism"

Fredrich Nietzsche

Sigmund Freud

Herbert Spencer, Houston Chamberlain (Social Darwinism)

Tolstoy, "Crime and Punishment"

Carl Jung