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Informationen zum Autor Isaac Kramnick Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This volume brings together more than 100 selections of works from the 18th century, including examples from Kant, Diderot, Newton and Locke. They demonstrate the impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social and economic institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes to Introduction Suggestions for Further Reading Chronological Table Part One: The Enlightenment Spirit: An Overview What is Enlightenment? Kant The Human Mind Emerged from Barbarism d’Alembert “Encyclopédie” Diderot Definition of a Philosophe Dumarsais Le mariage de Figaro Beaumarchais The Magic Flute Mozart The Future Progress of the Human Mind Condorcet Part Two: 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 Three: 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 Four: Reason and Humanity The Mind and Ideas “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 Education and Childhood Some Thoughts Concerning Education Locke Children and Civic Education Rousseau Education for Civil and Active Life Priestley Manners and Morals The Fable of the Bees Mandeville An Essay on Man Pope Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
