Reading assignment in the Portable Enlightenment Reader

Here are the excerpts from Isaac Kramnick, ed., The Portable Enlightenment Reader, that you should read. Note that we have already discussed many of these thinkers in lecture, while others will come up later.

• Introduction
• Part I: selections by Kant, d'Alembert, Diderot, Dumarsais, Condorcet
• Part II: selections by Bacon, Newton, Voltaire, Condorcet, Priestley, Franklin
• Part III: selections by Locke, Shaftesbury, Newton, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Gibbon, Jefferson, Franklin, Temple of Reason, Paine
• Part IV: Mind and Ideas --selections by Descartes, Locke, Voltaire, Hume, Reid, Condillac
• Part IV: Education and Childhood -- selections by Locke, Rousseau & Priestley
• Part IV: Manners and Morals -- selections by Mandeville, Pope, Diderot, Hutcheson, Smith, Kant
• Part IV : Taste and Art --selections by Hutcheson, Rousseau, Smith, Kant
• Part V: Progress and History -- selections by Turgot, Smith, Ferguson, Priestley, Condorcet
• Part V: Politics and the State (all)
• Part V: Markets and Economcs -- selection by Hume, Smith

More selections from Part V will be posted shortly.


If you bog down in this material, the selections from Locke are by far the most important.