4. A Brief History of Critical Thinking, Pt. 4: Agora Underground
The Story of Nowhere – Studies in Utopianism and Humanity
The Story of Nowhere (available as eBook, Audiobook, & Paperback): https://storyofnowhere.com/book/
The Story of Nowhere Podcast Introductory Episode—”Episode Zero”: https://storyofnowhere.com/zero/
A Brief History of Critical Thinking, Pt. 1: Shamans, Seers, and Sacred Geometry: https://storyofnowhere.com/historyofthinking1/
A Brief History of Critical Thinking, Pt. 2: The Life Examined: https://storyofnowhere.com/historyofthinking2/
A Brief History of Critical Thinking, Pt. 3: Light in the Dark: https://storyofnowhere.com/historyofthinking3/
Music Credits:
THE RENAISSANCE & NEO-PLATONISM
A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future – Charles Van Doren (1992)
“Renaissance Art” – Ancient History Encyclopedia
“Renaissance Philosophy” – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“Renaissance and Later Platonism” – Encyclopedia Britannica Online
“Renaissance Neo-Platonism” – Hermetic Library
“George Gemistus Plethon” – Encyclopedia Britannica Online
“Marsilio Ficino” – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“Giovanni Pico della Mirandola” – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“The Philosophical Background for Masonic Symbolism” – YouTube
LEONARDO DA VINCI
“Leonardo da Vinci” – Encyclopedia Britannica Online
The Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci
“Later Painting and Drawing” (of da Vinci) – Encyclopedia Britannica Online
- On Visions of the End of the World: “The last manifestation of Leonardo’s art of expression was in his series of pictorial sketches Visions of the End of the World (c. 1517–18). There Leonardo’s power of imagination—born of reason and fantasy—attained its highest level. Leonardo suggested that the immaterial forces in the cosmos, invisible in themselves, appear in the material things they set in motion. What he had observed in the swirling of water and eddying of air, in the shape of a mountain boulder and in the growth of plants, now assumed gigantic shape in cloud formations and rainstorms. He depicted the framework of the world as splitting asunder, but even in its destruction there occurs—as the monstrously “beautiful” forms of the unleashed elements show—the self-same laws of order, harmony, and proportion that presided at the world’s creation. These rules govern the life and death of every created thing in nature. Without any precedent, these “visions” are the last and most original expressions of Leonardo’s art—an art in which his perception based on saper vedere seems to have come to fruition.”
“Leonardo da Vinci: An Inventor Ahead of His Time” – Da Vinci Inventions Website
“The 30 Most Important Leonardo da Vinci Inventions” – Life Persona
Leonardo da Vinci’s Inventions Website
The Story of Civilization, vol. 5, The Renaissance (1953) – Will Durant
- Full Book (Internet Archive)
- “On Leonardo da Vinci” (YouTube) [Sampled in Episode]
FRANCIS BACON & THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
“Francis Bacon” – Encyclopedia Britannica Online
“Francis Bacon” – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Novum Organum (1620) – Francis Bacon
“Francis Bacon: Introduction to the Philosophy of Induction” – Then & Now (YouTube)
“The Great Instauration” (1620) – Francis Bacon
“Great Instauration” – Gateways to Wisdom
“Baconian Method” – World Heritage Encyclopedia (Project Gutenberg)
“Baconian Method” – Psychology Wiki
The New Atlantis (1627) – Francis Bacon
Aubrey’s “Brief Lives” (1898) – Andrew Clark (Internet Archive)
“Timeline of Scientific Discoveries” – Wikipedia
“René Descartes” – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“Isaac Newton” – Encyclopedia Britannica Online
“Feynman on Scientific Method” – Richard Feynman (YouTube)
“Scientific Method” – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
ELECTRICAL ILLUMINISM
“Benjamin Franklin” – Encyclopedia Britannica Online
“Thomas Paine” – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
“Benjamin Franklin’s Inventions” – The Franklin Institute
“Lessons from Benjamin Franklin” – John Taylor Gatto (YouTube)
“Benjamin Franklin” – PBS (YouTube)
- “Episode 1: Let the Experiment Begin” [Sampled in Episode]
- “Episode 2: The Making of a Revolutionary”
- “Episode 3: The Chess Master”
“Thomas Jefferson’s Trinity” – The American Conservative
“Denis Diderot” – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Encyclopédie (1751-1772) – Denis Diderot (Internet Archive)
The Science of Liberty – Timothy Ferris
“Easiest Way to Turn Your Kids into Geniuses” – John Taylor Gatto (YouTube)
A Renegade History of the United States – Thaddeus Russell
“The Syllabus of Errors” – Pope Pius IX (1864)
“Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae: Regarding Americanism” – Pope Leo XIII (1899)
“Jefferson on Weishaupt” (1800) – Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon
“Classrooms of the Heart” (1991) – John Taylor Gatto (YouTube)
