The portable Enlightenment reader

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.