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The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern liberalism, cultural humanism, science and technology, and laissez-faire Capitalism. This volume brings together works from this era, with more than 100 selections from a range of sources. It includes examples by Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Locke, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Paine that demonstrate the pervasive impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social, and economic institutions.
| ISBN | 0140245669 | | Pages | 704 | | ISBN13 | 9780140245660
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 462 | | Imprint | Penguin Classics | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Viking Portable Library S. | | Publication date | 28 Mar 1996 | | Height (mm) | 195 | | Library of Congress | B802.P59 1 | | Width (mm) | 182 | | DEWEY | 320.01 | | Spine width (mm) | 31 | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | | Academic level | General |
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| | | Introduction | | | | | | Notes to Introduction | | | | | | Suggestions for Further Reading | | | | Pt. 1 | | The Enlightenment Spirit: An Overview | | | | | | What is Enlightenment? - Kant | | 1 | | | | The Human Mind Emerged from Barbarism - d'Alembert | | 7 | | | | "Encyclopedie" - Diderot | | 17 | | | | Definition of a Philosophe - Dumarsais | | 21 | | | | Le mariage de Figaro - Beaumarchais | | 23 | | | | The Magic Flute - Mozart | | 25 | | | | The Future Progress of the Human Mind - Condorcet | | 26 | | Pt. 2 | | Reason and Nature | | | | | | The New Science - Bacon | | 39 | | | | Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy - Newton | | 43 | | | | The New Physics - Cotes | | 48 | | | | On Bacon and Newton - Voltaire | | 51 | | | | The Rat - Buffon | | 60 | | | | The Utility of Science - Condorcet | | 64 | | | | The Organization of Scientific Research - Priestley | | 69 | | | | Letter to Joseph Priestley - Franklin | | 73 | | Pt. 3 | | Reason and God | | | | | | On Superstition and Tolerance - Bayle | | 75 | | | | A Letter Concerning Toleration - Locke | | 81 | | | | On Enthusiasm - Shaftesbury | | 90 | | | | The Argument for a Deity - Newton | | 96 | | | | A Discourse of Free-Thinking - Collins | | 101 | | | | "If there is a God . . ." - Montesquieu | | 106 | | | | Of Miracles and the Origin of Religion - Hume | | 109 | | | More... | | |
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