The Enlightenment

Presents a collection of essays that provide an overview of the Enlightenment, including information on it origins, history, philosophy, and influence.

Chronicles the history of the world from 1600 to 1850; discussing important events and prominent figures. Includes maps and illustrations.

Examines the life, works, and thought of eighteenth-century French philosopher and author Voltaire, including his philosophical beliefs, his deism, and his methods as a historian.

Contains modern translations of five stories by the eighteenth-century French author, including the title selection about a simple, optimistic man whose travels take him from one disaster to another; and includes a critical introduction and a chronology.

Eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1762 treatise on liberty, democracy, and constitutional legitimacy.

Introduces high school and college students to ten widely studies works of philosophical literature and discusses each work's place in literary and philosophical history.

An illustrated history of Western philosophy from the Ancient Greeks to modern thinkers, highlighting the theories of major philosophers including Socrates, Plato, Saint Augustine, Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Nietzsche, and others; and including a look at the future of philosophical study.

Selections that demonstrate how and why rationalism and empiricism came about, also examine the disparities between the two schools and the similarities of their common assumptions.

Examines the lives and thinking of one hundred of the most influential philosophers in the history of the world, from ancient Greece to the dawn of the twenty-first century.