Research Catalog

Title

The portable Enlightenment reader / edited and with an introduction by Isaac Kramnick.

Publication

New York : Penguin Books, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kramnick, Isaac

Description

xxix, 670 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

This volume brings together the era's classic works, with more than a hundred selections from a broad range of sources, including Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, Newton, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and others that demonstrate the pervasive impact of Enlightenment views.

Series Statement

The Viking portable library

Uniform Title

Viking portable library

Alternative Title

Enlightenment reader

Subjects

• 1700-1799
• Philosophy, Modern > 18th century
• Enlightenment

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. xxv-xxviii).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 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 -- Women, Adored and Oppressed / Paine (attr.) -- A woman gossips much / Mozart -- Women's Education / Macaulay -- On the Equality of the Sexes / Constantia -- The Rights of Women / de Gouges -- Vindication of the Rights of Women / Wollstonecraft -- Negroes naturally inferior to the whites / Woolman -- The Difference between the Races / Kant -- Who are you, then, to make slaves / Diderot -- Bestial manners, stupidity, and vices / Long.

ISBN

0140245669 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^95016720^

OCLC

• 32430282
• SCSB-11479993

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library