The portable Enlightenment reader

9780140245660

xxix, 670 pages ; 20 cm

Enlightenment reader

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxv-xxviii)

Part 1. The Enlightenment Spirit : An Overview
What is Enlightenment? / Kant
The Human Mind Emerged from Barbarism / d'Alembert
Encyclopedie / Diderot
Definition of a Philosophe / Dumarsais
Le mariage de Figaro / Beaumarchais
The Magic Flute / Mozart
The Future Progress of the Human Mind / Condorcet
Part 2. Reason and Nature
The New Science / Bacon
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy / Newton
The New Physics / Cotes
On Bacon and Newton / Voltaire
The Rat / Buffon
The Utility of Science / Condorcet
The Organization of Scientific Research / Priestley
Letter to Joseph Priestley / Franklin
Part 3. Reason and God
On Superstition and Tolerance / Bayle
A Letter Concerning Toleration / Locke
On Enthusiasm / Shaftesbury
The Argument for a Deity / Newton
A Discourse of Free-Thinking / Collins
If there is a God / Montesquieu
Of Miracles and the Origin of Religion / Hume
Reflections on Religion / Voltaire
Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar / Rousseau
No need of theology-- only of reason / d'Holbach
The Progress of Superstition / Gibbon
Unitarianism / Priestley
Religion : my views of it / Jefferson
Something of my religion / Franklin
The Temple of Reason ; The Age of Reason / Paine
Part 4. Reason and Humanity
I think, therefore I am / Descartes
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding / Locke
New Essays on Human Understanding / Leibnitz
On Mr. Locke / Voltaire
A Treatise of Human Nature / Hume
Man a Machine / la Mettrie
Of Ideas, Their Generation and Associations / Hartley
The Philosophy of Common Sense / Reid
Treatise on the Sensations / Condillac
Some Thoughts Concerning Education / Locke
Children and Civic Education / Rousseau
Education for Civil and Active Life / Priestley
The Fable of the Bees / Mandeville
An Essay on Man / Pope
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure / Cleland
Enjoyment and Tahiti / Diderot
Concerning the Moral Sense / Hutcheson
The Impartial Spectator / Smith
A Treatise on Man / Helvetius
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals / Kant
The Principle of Utility / Bentham
On Wit / Addison
Ideas of Beauty and Virtue / Hutcheson
Discourse on Style / Buffon
Of the Standard of Taste / Hume
The Sublime / Burke
On Theater and Morals / Rousseau
On Custom and Fashion / Smith
The Beautiful and Sublime / Kant
Discourse on Art / Reynolds
Part 5. Reason and Society
The New Science / Vico
The Utility of History / Bolingbroke
History as Guide / Hume
On Progress / Turgot
A Critique of Progress / Rousseau
In Defense of Modernity / Voltaire
The Four-Stage Theory of Development / Smith
The Progressive Character of Human Nature / Ferguson
How glorious, then, is the prospect / Priestley
The Perfectibility of Man / Condorcet
The Second Treatise of Civil Government / Locke
The Spirit of the Laws / Montesquieu
Political Essays / Voltaire
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality / Rousseau
The Social Contract / Rousseau
Common Sense / Paine
The American Declaration of Independence
Benevolent Despotism / Frederick the Great
Federalist No. 10 / Madison
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
The Rights of Man / Paine
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice / Godwin
The Royal Exchange / Addison
Industry and the Way to Wealth / Franklin
Of Luxury / Hume
The Physiocratic Formula / Quesnay
Economic Liberty / Turgot
The Wealth of Nations / Smith
The Severity of Criminal Laws / Montesquieu
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments / Beccaria
On Torture and Capital Punishment / Voltaire
The State of Prisons / Howard
Cases unmeet for punishment / Bentham
Splendid Armies / Voltaire
There never was a good war / Franklin
Perpetual Peace / Kant
Some Reflections upon Marriage / Astell
Duties of Women / Rousseau
The Fair Sex / Kant
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