17c Enlightenment Thought  The Age of Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment in the Paintings of France's Museums Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza (biography) The Bourbons:  A Genealogical Chart (France) The Continental Enlightenment:  Jean Jacques Rousseau Creating French Culture:  Treasures from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France David Hume (biography) The Deist Document "Écrasez I'infâme!:  The Triumph of Science and the Heavenly City of the 18c philosophe" - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert The Encyclopèdie Project The Edict of Tolerance and the Jews Eighteenth Resources on the Net Europe and the Enlightenment:  The Philosophes French Deism The French Enlightenment The Hohenzollerns:  Genealogical Chart (Brandenburg/Prussia) The House of Habsburgs - Lorraine:  Genealogical Chart Immanuel Kant (biography) Jean Jacques Rousseau - the Rousseau Association John Locke (biography) John Locke:  The Philosopher of Freedom Key European & World Figures Born Between 1600-1797  (timeline) Major Events in the World During 1650-1800  (timeline) Map-->"Science and the Enlightenment" "The New Intellectual Order--Man, Nature, and Society" - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History NM's Creative Impulse:  The Development of Western Civilization - The Age of Enlightenment (mucho links) The Philosophes People of Ideas:  The Enlightenment Poetry, Literature, & Significant Literary Events During the Age of Reason:  1650--1800  (timeline) The Political Movers and Shakers of the Enlightenment "The Racism of the 18c Social Sciences" The Rebirth of Philosophy The Reforms of Maria Theresa and Joseph II René Descartes (biography) Rococo Style Salon Life Significant Building & Engineering Events of the Enlightenment Period:  1656-1799  (timeline) The Spanish Bourbons:  Genealogical Chart The Spanish Habsburgs:  Genealogical Chart  Thomas Hobbes (biography) Transportation Inventions & Events of the Enlightenment Period  (timeline) "The Vision of Human Progress:  Vico, Gibbon, and Condorcet" - from the Lectures on Modern European Intellectual History "Voltaire and Frederick the Great" - from Books and Characters, French and English by Lytton Strachey, 1915;  edited by Geoffrey Sauer "The Western Traditions" video series on line - The Annenburg Foundation "Who Was Voltaire?"

    
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1689:  "A Letter Concerning Toleration" - John Locke 1690:  "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" - John Locke  1690:  Two Treatises on Government - John Locke (full text) 1693:  Some Thoughts on Education - John Locke early 18c:  A Short History of Methodism - John Wesley 1710:  A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - George Berkeley 1719:  (On) the Education of Women - Daniel Defoe 1721:  The Persian Letters (No. 13) - Charles De Secondant Montesquieu 1730-1754:  Henry St. John - Viscount Bolingbroke, On Patriotism 1748:  An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume 1748:  The Spirit of Laws - Charles De Secondat Montesquieu 1751-1772:  Plates on dressmaking from Diderot and D’Alembert, Encyclopedie 1752:  A Discourse on the Origins of Inequality - Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1752:  Voltaire - Patrie 1754:  David Hume - Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth 1757:  The Natural History of Education - David Hume 1758:  An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume 1759:  Candide - Voltaire 1759:  A Letter on the Subject of Candide to the Journal Encyclopédique - Voltaire 1762:  The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Roussueau 1763:  A Treatise on Toleration - Voltaire 1764:  Essays on Crime and Punishment - Cesare Beccaria 1764:  The Philosophical Dictionary - Voltaire 1764:  "Religion" from A Philosophical Dictionary - Voltaire 1775:  John Wesley - Thoughts Upon Slavery 1775:  An Essay on Crimes and Punishment - Cesare Beccaria 1776:  Declaration of Independence - Thomas Jefferson 1776-1788:  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbons 1776:  Joseph Priestly - The Discovery of Oxygen 1778:  Gotthold Ephriam Lessing - The Education of the Human Race 1778:  Mary Wollstonecraft's Early Views on Education 1778:  On Francis Bacon--from Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques - Voltaire 1778:  Voltaire's Letters on Sir Isaac Newton 1780:  Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation - Jeremy Bentham (full text) 1781:  The Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant   1782:  The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1783:  Benjamin Franklin - Experiments With Balloons 1784:  What is Enlightenment? - Immanuel Kant 1789:  Richard Price - Discourse on the Love of Country 1794:  On the Future Progress of the Human Mind - Marquis de Condocert late 18c:  Catherine the Great - Various Documents on Enlightenment and Government late 18c:  The Salon (excerpts from several observers of the period on the women) late 18c:  Thomas Paine - Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian Religion