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10 Philosophy Books BANNED By The Catholic Church
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- VIDEO NOTES
The Index Librorum Prohibitorum, or Index of Prohibited Books, was published by the Catholic Church until 1966. Containing all those works deemed heretical, dangerous, and/or false by the Church since the 1500s, it provides a wonderful list of book recommendations.
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Robin Vose, "The Index of Prohibited BooksFour Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God"
BOOKS:
Descartes, "Meditations on First Philosophy"
Pascal, "Pensées"
Copernicus, "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres"
Galileo, "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems"
Smith, "The Wealth of Nations"
Bentham, "Deontology; or, The Science of Morality"
Mill, "Principles of Political Economy"
Hobbes, "Leviathan"
Rousseau, "The Social Contract"
Voltaire, "Candide"
Machiavelli, "The Prince"
Milton, "Paradise Lost"
Gibbon, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
Hugo, "Les Misérables"
Hugo, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
de Beauvoir, "The Second Sex"
JeanPaul Sartre
Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason"
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