Tolerance the beacon of the enlightenment
Inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely diverse i...
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Cambridge, England :
Open Book Publishers
2016
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction by Caroline Warman
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, 1789
- 2. Voltaire, 'Prayer to God', from Treatise on Tolerance, 1763
- 3. Three aphorisms from Denis Diderot, Philosophical Thoughts, 1746; Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, 1748; and Voltaire, Portable Philosophical Dictionary, 1764
- 4. Nicolas de Condorcet, 'On Admitting Women to the Rights of Citizenship', 1790
- 5. John Locke, Letter on Toleration, 1686
- 6. Denis Diderot, 'Aius Locutius', from the Encyclopédie, 1751
- 7. Montesquieu, 'On the Enslavement of Negroes', from The Spirit of the Laws
- 8. Jean-François Marmontel, 'Minds are not Enlightened by the Flames of an Executioner's Pyre', from Belisarius, 1767
- 9. Three aphorisms from Diderot The Philosopher and Marshal ***'s Wife Have a Deep Chat, 1774; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile, or On Education, 1762; and Frederick the Great of Prussia
- 10. Abbé Grégoire, On Freedom of Worship, 1794
- 11. Immanuel Kant, 'Dare to Know', from What is Enlightenment?, 1784
- 12. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro, 1784
- 13. Pierre Bayle, On Tolerance, or A philosophical Commentary on these Words of the Gospel, Luke XIV. 23, Compel Them to Come in, 1686
- 14. Alexandre Deleyre, 'Fanaticism', from the Encyclopédie,1756
- 15. Four aphorisms from Louis de Jaucourt, 'Intolerant', from the Encyclopédie, 1765;William Warburton, Essay on Egyptian Hieroglyphics, 1744; Rousseau, Émile, or On Education; and Anon., 'Refugees', from the Encyclopédie, 1765
- 16. Jean le Rond d'Alembert, On the Suppression of the Jesuits, 1765
- 17. Jeanne-Marie Roland, Personal Memoirs, 1795
- 18. Evariste de Parny, The War of the Gods, 1799
- 19. Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, 1791
- 20. Pierre Bayle, On Tolerance, 1686
- 21. Voltaire, La Henriade, 1723
- 22. Three aphorisms from Diderot, The Eleutheromaniacs, 1772; Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762; and Moses Mendelssohn, Morning Hours, 1786
- 23. Montesquieu, The Persian Letters, 1721
- 24. Abbé Grégoire, 'New Observations on the Jews and in Particular on the Jews of Amsterdam and Frankfurt', 1807
- 25. Rétif de la Bretonne, Paris Nights, 1788
- 26. Three aphorisms from Diderot, Philosophical Thoughts; Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments, 1786; and Rousseau, The Social Contract
- 27. Voltaire, Candide, 1759
- 28. d'Alembert, 'Geometer', from the Encyclopédie, 1757
- 29. Rabaut Saint-Étienne, 'No Man Should Be Harassed for His Opinions nor Troubled in the Practice of His Religion', 1789
- 30. Three aphorisms from Diderot, 'Letter to My Brother', 1760; Voltaire, Treatise on Metaphysics, 1735; and Rousseau, The Citizen, or An Address on Political Economy, 1765
- 31. Diderot, Extract from a Letter to Princess Dashkova, 3 April 1771
- 32. Voltaire, 'Free Thinking', from Dictionaryof Philosophy, 1764
- 33. Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, 'Reflections on Slavery', from A Voyage to the Island of Mauritius, 1773
- 34. Pierre de Marivaux, The French Spectator, 5 October 1723
- 35. Louis-Alexandre Devérité, Collected Documents of Interest on the Case of the Desecration of the Abbeville Crucifix, which Occurred on 9th August 1765, 1776
- 36. Anon., The Private and Public Life of the Posterior Marquis de Villette, Retroactive Citizen, 1791
- 37. Three aphorisms from Diderot, Philosophical Thoughts; Marivaux, The French Spectator; and Pierre Jean George Cabanis, On Sympathy, 1802
- 38. Leandro Fernández de Moratín, 'A Philanthropic Congregation', 1811
- 39. Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
- 40. Voltaire, 'On Universal Tolerance', 1763
- 41. Three aphorisms from Diderot, Philosophical Thoughts; Marivaux, The French Spectator; and Voltaire, 'Fanaticisme', from Portable Philosophical Dictionary
- 42. Condorcet, Anti-superstitious Almanack, 1773-1774
- 43. Montesquieu, Persian Letters
- 44. José Cadalso y Vázquezde Andrade, Defence of the Spanish Nation against Persian Letter 78 by Montesquieu, 1775
- 45. Nicolas-Edme Rétif, known as Rétif de la Bretonne, Ninth Juvenal. The False Immorality of the Freedom of the Press, 1796
- 46. Condorcet, Anti-superstitious Almanack 47. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan the Wise, 1779
- 48. Three aphorisms from Germaine de Staël, Reflections on the French Revolution, 1818; Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments; and Rousseau, Reveries of a Solitary Walker, 1782
- 49. Luis Guttiérez, Cornelia Bororquia, or the Inquisition's Victim, 1801
- 50. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, 'Fraternal Harmonies', 1815
- 51. Diderot, Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage, 1772
- 52. Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon, Memoirs, posthumous
- 53. Three aphorisms from Alexandre Deleyre, 'Fanaticism', from the Encyclopédie; Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, 1789; and Voltaire, Letter to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 9 November 1764
- 54. Helvétius, Essays on the Mind, 1758
- 55. Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Portrait of Paris, 1781
- 56. Juan Pablo Forner, In Praise of Spain and its Literary Merit, 1786
- 57. Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, 'The Two Persians', 1792
- 58. Three aphorisms from Rousseau, Émile, or on Education; Voltaire, Letter to the King of Prussia, 20 December 1740; and Jaucourt, 'Tolerance', censored article from the Encyclopédie
- 59. Voltaire, On the Horrible Danger of Reading, 1765.
