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Enlightenment
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to all contents of all sections.
Contents
- The Enlightenment
- Precursors
- The Enlightenment as a Propaganda Project
- The Enlightenment and Political Analysis
- The Enlightenment Evaluation of the Human Condition
- The Enlightenment and Economics
- Enlightenment and Philosophy
- Enlightenment Attitudes
- The Social Setting
- Enlightenment Philosophy - Full Texts
- Enlightenment Politics and Economics - Full Texts
- Religion in an Age of Reason
- Opposition to Religion
- Rational Christianity
- Evangelicalism
- Catholic Pietism
- Jewish Responses
The Enlightenment
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WEB Eighteenth Century Resources [At Rutgers]
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WEB Web Guide to Historians and Philosophers [At Scholiast]
- WEB Restoration and Eighteenth
Century English Literature [At ACCD]
Listing of the major British authors, with dates of their works, and links to the works
when online.
- SUMMARY: Rebirth of
Philosophy: Empiricism and Rationalism
- Precursors
- John Locke: see Constitutionalism Page for links to all his texts online here.
- Voltaire (1694-1778): On John Locke, from Letters
on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, c. 1778 [At this Site]
- The Enlightenment as a Propaganda Project
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Denis Diderot (1713-1784): Encyclopedie [At Chicago]
This is a link to the beginning of a complete online version of the Encyclopedia.
- Denis Diderot (1713-1784): Regrets sur ma
vieille robe de chambre ou avis à ceux qui ont plus de goût que de fortune, 1772, in
French [At Bib. Lisieux]
- Jean La Rond D'Alembert: Preliminary
Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot [At WSU]
- Voltaire (1694-1778): Letters on Newton,
from the Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques, c. 1778 [At this
Site]
RG Reading Guide
- Voltaire (1694-1778): Letters on the English or Lettres
Philosophiques, full text, c. 1778 [At this Site]
- Jean Jacques Rousseau: Profession of Faith of a
Savoyard Vicar, 1782 [At this Site]
- Voltaire (1694-1778): Patrie, in The
Philosophical Dictionary, 1752 [At this Site]
Voltaire's attack on national chauvinism - and his views than people should be citizens of
the world.
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Voltaire (1694-1778): Poème
sur le désastre de Lisbonne, 1756 [At Geneva][In French]
- Rev. Charles Davy: The Earthquake at Lisbon, 1755 [At
this Site]
It was this earthquake that was behind Candide, and Voltaire's attack on Leibniz
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Voltaire (1694-1778): Candide,
1759, excerpts [At Internet Archive, from Clinch Valley College]
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Voltaire (1694-1778): Candide, 1759
[At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
- Voltaire (1694-1778): A
Treatise on Toleration, 1763 [At WSU]
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Voltaire (1694-1778): Traité
sur la tolérance, 1763 [At Geneva][In French]
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Voltaire (1694-1778): On English Government,
from Philosophical Dictionary, 1764 [At Civnet]
- Voltaire (1694-1778): Les
droits des hommes et les usurpations des papes, 1768 [At Geneva][In French]
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Voltaire (169-1778): Selections
from the Philosophical Dictionary [At Hanover]
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Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689-1755): Persian Letters, No. 11 and No. 12, 1721 [At William and Mary]
- Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689-1755): Persian
Letters, No. 13, 1721 [At this Site]
- The Enlightenment and Political Analysis
- SUMMARY: Enlightenment
Political Thought
- Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755): The Spirit of the Laws, 1748, excerpts [At this Site]
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Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755): The Spirit of the Laws,
1748, alternative excerpts [At Internet Archive, from Clinch Valley College]
- Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke: On
Patriotism, 1730-1754 [At this Site]
- Jean Jacques Rousseau: A Dissertation On the
Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind, Parts 1 and 2, 1755, extended
excerpts, [At this Site]
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778): A Discourse Upon
The Origin and The Foundation of The Inequality among Mankind, full text, [At this
Site]
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78): Second Discourse on
the Origins of Inequality, 1755 [At this Site]
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Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78): Discours sur l'Origine et les
Fondements de l'Inégalité parmi les Hommes, 1755 [At Geneva][Full Text][In French]
- Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, 1763,
extended excerpts, [At this Site]
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78): The Social Contract,
1763, extracts [At this Site]
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78): The
Social Contract, 1763, extracts [At WSU]
RG Reading Guide
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Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78): Du contrat social, 1763
[At Geneva][Full Text][In French]
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Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78): Emile [Full Text][At
Project Gutenberg]
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John Jacques Rousseau (1712-78): Emile,
ou l'education, full text, in French and English [At Columbia ILT]
- Cesare Beccaria: An Essay on Crimes and Punishments,
excerpts [At this Site]
- The Enlightenment Evaluation of the Human Condition
- The Enlightenment and Economics
- Adam Smith (1723-90): The Wealth of Nations,
1776, an epitome, [At this Site]
- Adam Smith (1723-90): Wealth
of Nations, 1776, chapter 1 [At WSU]
On the division of labor.
- Adam Smith (1723-90): Wealth
of Nations, 1776, extracts [At WSU]
On prices
- Adam Smith (1723-90), Of Colonies,
from The Wealth of Nations, 1776 [At American Revolution]
- Adam Smith (1723-90), The Cost of Empire,
from The Wealth of Nations, 1776 [At American Revolution]
- Adam Smith (1723-90): The Principle of the Mercantile
System, 1776, from Wealth of Nations. [At this Site]
- Adam Smith (1723-90): Wealth of Nations,
Full Text. [At Artbin]
- Adam Smith (1723-90): The Wealth of Nations,
in chapter files, full text, [At Bibliomania]
- Enlightenment and Philosophy
- Enlightenment Attitudes
- The Social Setting
- Enlightenment Philosophy - Full Texts
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Michel de Montaigne: Essays,
1575 [At HK][Full Text]
More a pre-cursor than an Enlightenment thinker!
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John Locke (1632-1704): An Essay
Concerning Human Understanding, 1690 [At Oregon State][Full text]
- George Berkeley: A treatise
concerning the principles of human knowledge, 1710 [At Adelaide][Full Text]
- George Berkeley: A Defence
of Free-Thinking in Mathematics [At Trinity College Dublin][Full Text]
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Gottfried Leibniz: The
Monadology, 1714. [At Marxists.org][Full Text]
- Adam Smith (1723-90): Theory of Moral
Sentiments, 1759 [At McMaster][Full text]
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David Hume: Enquiry
Concerning Human Understanding [At Eserver] or Parts I-VII and Parts VIII-XII [At Artbin][Full Text]
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David Hume: Essays on
Suicide and Immortality, 1783 ed. [At Infidels.org][Full Text]
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): The
Metaphysical Elements of Ethics, 1780 [At Gutenberg Project][Full Text]
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): The critique of
pure reason, 1781 [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): Critique
of Pure Reason, 1781 , (1929 Norman Kemp Smith translation) [At Chinese University of Hong Kong][Full Text]
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): Introduction to the
metaphysics of morals, 1785 [At Marxists.org][Full Text]
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): Fundamental
principles of the metaphysic of morals, 1785 [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): Critique of
practical reason, 1788 [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): Critique
Of Judgment, 1790, [At Adelaide][Full Text]
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): The Science
Of Right, 1790, [At Adelaide][Full Text]
- Enlightenment Politics and Economics - Full Texts
- Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws, Translated by
Thomas Nugent, revised by J. V. Prichard, 1914 ed., [At Constitution.org][Full text]
- Jean Jacques Rousseau: A Discourse
on Political Economy, 1755, [At Constitution.org][Full text]
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Adam Smith (1723-90): Wealth of Nations 1776 [At Project Gutenberg][Full text]
- Adam Ferguson: An Essay on
the History of Civil Society, 1767 [At McMaster][Full text]
- Caesar Beccaria: A Discourse on
Public Economy and Commerce [At McMaster][Full text]
- Caesar Beccaria: A Discourse on
Public Economy and Commerce [At Bristol][Full text]
- David Hume (1711-1776): Selected
Essays, [At Constitution.org][Full texts]
- David Hume (1711-1776): Of the
Original Contract, 1748, [At Constitution.org][Full text]
- David Hume (1711-1776): Idea of a
Perfect Commonwealth, 1754, [At Constitution.org][Full text]
- David Hume (1711-1776): Of Interest [At McMaster][Full text]
- David Hume (1711-1776): Of the Balance of
Trade [At McMaster][Full text]
- David Hume (1711-1776): Of Money,
1752 [At McMaster][Full text]
- Jeremy Bentham: Defence of Usury,
1787 [At Mcmaster][Full text]
- Blackstone's Commentaries, with
notes by St. George Tucker, 1803, [At Constitution.org][Full text]
- David Ricardo (1772-1823): The
principles of political economy and taxation, 1815 (third ed. 1821) [At McMaster][Full
text]
- James Kent: Commentaries on American
Law, 1826, [At Constitution.org][Full text]
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- Rational Christianity
- Evangelicalism
- Catholic Pietism
- Jewish Responses
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