{"product_id":"the-secret-codes-of-the-mind-from-medieval-philosophy-to-the-enlightenment-part-three-paperback","title":"THE SECRET CODES OF THE MIND: FROM MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT, PART THREE (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy did the century of public reason seek moral transformation behind the closed doors of the lodge?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnlightenment criticism moved past the limits of knowledge and into religion, politics, education, and the conduct of a life. The same century built rooms across Europe and the Atlantic world that a man could enter only by oath. \u003cem\u003eFrom Medieval Philosophy to the Enlightenment, Volume IV, Part Three\u003c\/em\u003e follows public reason into that private ritual order — and asks what the eighteenth century wanted from it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom Medieval Philosophy to the Enlightenment, Volume IV, Part Three\u003c\/em\u003e is an academic philosophy textbook by Andrew V. Kudin, PhD, based on more than four decades of teaching and research. This Second Revised and Expanded Edition contains Module VII: The Age of Enlightenment, Part Three of the three-part Volume IV of \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Codes of the Mind\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLecture 27. The Enlightenment: Problems of Knowledge and Metaphysics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVoltaire and Rousseau: Freedom under Judgment.\u003c\/strong\u003e Voltaire puts religious certainty on trial, attacking fanaticism and the cruelty committed in its name. The Lisbon earthquake turns that attack to fury — a city destroyed at prayer, on All Saints' Day, while philosophy went on explaining that this was the best of all possible worlds. Rousseau turns his suspicion on civilization itself. Inequality, dependence, education, the social contract, and the general will converge on a single question: can political society restore the freedom it helped destroy?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMontesquieu, Diderot, Skovoroda: Law, Knowledge, and Inner Freedom.\u003c\/strong\u003e Montesquieu asks how laws arise from the conditions of a society, and how power can be made to check power. Through the \u003cem\u003eEncyclopédie\u003c\/em\u003e, Diderot makes the circulation of knowledge an act of insubordination against censorship and intellectual obedience. Grigory Skovoroda takes another path entirely, locating freedom in self-knowledge, spiritual independence, and kindred labor — work suited to the person who performs it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLecture 28. Ethical and Philosophical Principles of Freemasonry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFreemasonry: When Craft Becomes Moral Philosophy.\u003c\/strong\u003e Freemasonry turns the language of builders inward. The rough ashlar stands for character before cultivation; Solomon's Temple becomes an architecture of moral order; the legend of Hiram puts fidelity, loss, and death in front of the initiate and requires him to act them out. The London Grand Lodge tradition consolidated in 1717 carries these symbols into institutional life, where moral instruction runs through initiation, discipline, and obligations assumed toward other members.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Lodge: Universal Brotherhood and Its Boundaries.\u003c\/strong\u003e The lodge builds a voluntary order out of freedom of conscience and regulated sociability, with connections that cross political borders. Its history reaches into the revolutionary worlds of America and France. The lecture separates documented networks and political participation from later legends of hidden command, then tests universal brotherhood against the exclusions of eighteenth-century society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBuilt for active study\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiscussion and comparative questions for classroom debate\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEssay and research assignments for independent inquiry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSuggested readings: primary sources and essential scholarship\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho this book is for\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInstructors teaching Enlightenment philosophy, political philosophy, or the history of ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStudents seeking close engagement with eighteenth-century arguments, symbols, and political conflicts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent readers who want the Masonic eighteenth century without conspiracy literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat kind of freedom could the Enlightenment promise while its own societies remained divided by rank, religion, gender, race, and empire? Why did an age that trusted argument still need ritual?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePublisher ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKudin \u0026amp; Sons Academic Press\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePublication date ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAugust 19, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eLanguage ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePrint length ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e263 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eISBN-10 ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1971325562\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eISBN-13 ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e978-1971325569\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLCCN : \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Aptos; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e2026914137\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eItem Weight ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1.02 pounds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDimensions ‏ : ‎\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e7 x 0.6 x 10 inches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kudin \u0026 Sons Academic Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49627979415767,"sku":null,"price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/7231\/5095\/files\/COVER-4-BOOK-3.jpg?v=1787472983","url":"https:\/\/store.kudin.com\/products\/the-secret-codes-of-the-mind-from-medieval-philosophy-to-the-enlightenment-part-three-paperback","provider":"Philosophy \u0026 Style Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}