The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment
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The Enlightenment is an authoritative anthology of the key political writings from "the best and most hopeful episode in the history of mankind." The texts are supported by a lucid introduction exploring their moral, philosophical, political and economic background. Biographical notes and carefully selected bibliographies offer further help. David Williams, a distinguished Enlightenment scholar, offers the reader a view of the evolution of Enlightenment political thinking in a variety of contexts. Students of political science, history, European studies, international relations, law and philosophy will find this an invaluable resource.
- Texts use authoritative editions derived from the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, and some specially-commissioned translations
- The only sourcebook a student of the Enlightenment would need
- Offers a broad range of extracts, including less familiar writers and a trans-European coverage
Product details
October 1999Paperback
9780521564908
542 pages
248 × 175 × 27 mm
1.127kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Select bibliography
- Part I. Natural Law:
- 1. Burlamaqui: Principles of natural right [and natural law]
- Part II. The Civil Order:
- 2. Rousseau: Discourse on the origin and the foundations of inequality among men and The social contract
- 3. Priestley: Essay on the first principles of government, and on the nature of political, civil and religious liberty
- Part III. The Nation State:
- 4. Voltaire: Homeland and Man
- 5. Herder: Ideas for a philosophy of the history of mankind and Letters for the advancement of humanity
- Part IV. Government:
- 6. Hume: That politics may be reduced to a science, On the first principles of government, Of the origin of government, and Idea of a perfect commonwealth
- 7. Montesquieu: The spirit of the laws
- 8. Moser: The master and the servant
- Part V. Civil Rights:
- 9. Diderot: Political authority, City, Citizen and Natural law
- 10. Condorcet: Reflections on black slavery
- 11. Gouges: The rights of women
- 12. Wollstonecraft: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects
- Part VI. International Relations:
- 13. Saint-Pierre: A project to establish permanent peace in Europe
- 14. Barbeyrac: Notes on Grotius' On the law of war and peace
- 15. Kant: Perpetual peace: a philosophical sketch
- Part VII. Trade and Economics:
- 16. Mandeville: The moral [of the Fable of the bees]
- 17. Quesnay: The economic tableau
- 18. Smith: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
- Part VIII. Crime and Punishment:
- 19. Beccaria: On crimes and punishment
- Part IX. Revolution:
- 20. Paine: Common sense
- 21. Sieyes: What is the third estate?
- 22. Burke: Reflections on the revolution in France
- Index
