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. 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. Edited And With An Introduction By Isaac Kramnick. Includes Bibliographical References (p. Xxv-xxviii).

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