Les Philosophes: The Philosophers of the Enlightenment and Modern DemocracyThis collection presents the writings of the men who paved the way for the French Revolution and who established modern democratic principles on a firm foundation. These men were extremely influential in the establishment of liberal principles, but they also were the most brilliant polemical, political and satirical writers who ever lived. Besides the dangerous genius of Voltaire, we have some of the most famous and characteristic writings of such men as Bayle, Fénelon, Rousseau, Diderot, Montesquieu and La Mettrie. This book, especially designed for students of European history, French history and politics, and French 18th century literature, will also delight any reader who loves precision and clarity of statement which occasionally tends towards the brutal. |
Contents
Authors Foreword | 8 |
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds 1686 | 21 |
The History of Oracles and the Cheats of the Pagan | 30 |
Copyright | |
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Age of Enlightenment ancient André Destouches animal arts Bayle believe body brahmin CALIFORNIA LIBRARY cause celestial matter century Christians Church citizen civil common confess conscience constitution corrupted crime Croutef death democracy Descartes Diderot divine earth England Enlightenment equal eternal everything evil executive power father fear feel force France French give happiness holy honor human ideas imagine John Locke judge justice king laws legislative letter liberty live Louis XIV magistrates Malebranche mankind matter ment mind Mme Geoffrin Montesquieu moral nation nature never opinion Persian Letters person philosophes Pierre Bayle pleasure political prince principles punish Quakers reason religion religious replied republic Rousseau sense slave social Social Contract society soul Sovereign Sparta spirit subsist superstition tell thing thou thought tion true truth universe UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA virtue Voltaire Voltaire's word
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A History of Political Thought: Plato to Marx Subrata Mukherjee,Sushila Ramaswamy No preview available - 2004 |
Dark Mirror: The Sense of Injustice in Modern European and American Literature Richard Clark Sterne No preview available - 1994 |