European History ---Enlightenment, Romanticism

• Isaiah Berlin (20th century writer)
• John Spilsbury, an engraver and mapmaker, is credited with inventing the first jigsaw puzzle in 1767.
• Svetlana Boym - Nostalgia(book)

Nostalgia is the longing for the thing in the past that never actually was(Rousseauian Nostalgia-you recreated in the mind).

• Charles Taylor (understatement of 18th century?)
• Kant - What Is Enlightenment? (essay) "sapere aude"(dare to know)was his slogan.
• Kant - Critique of Pure Reason- book (1781) is about limits of human reason
• Kant - Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

People need free will to have morality, and then they will have later moral philosophy. Kantian morality is all about intentions not about consequences.

• non-governmental organization (NGO) ngo people
• Hannah Arendt
• F. Dostoevsky - Notes from Underground (book) - his tirade against Enlightenment. The underground man does not want to b rational and he is self-conscious about his desire not to be rational.
• Disciple of Kant Johann Gottlieb Fichte "to be free is nothing, to become free is heaven"
• Adam Mickiewicz (Polish poet) "For the Polish nation did not die Its body lay in the grave, and its soul had gone from the Earth into purgatory into the domestic life of those nations suffering from slavery, and on the third day the soul will return to the body and the nation will rise again and free all the peoples of Europe from slavery"
• David Foster Wallace: Hayatın varsayılan ayarlarından kurtulmak

https://vesaire.org/david-foster-wallace-hayatin-varsayilan-ayarlarindan-kurtulmak/