Voltaire
Voltaire, the famous French infidel. He was the chief critic of the church. He held to Deism.
Picture courtesy of State College of Florida
- Candide and Other Stories byCall Number: PQ 2082 .C3 E5 1992ISBN: 067941746X:Publication Date: 1992-11-03Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds."Fast, funny, often outrageous, the French philosopher's immortal narrative takes Candide around the world to discover that -- contrary to the teachings of his distringuished tutor Dr. Pangloss -- all is not always for the best. Alive with wit, brilliance, and graceful storytelling, Candide has become Voltaire's most celebrated work. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
- The portable Voltaire, ed., and with an introd., by Ben Ray Redman.Call Number: PQ2075.V6Publication Date: 1949.
Overview of Enlightenment
Adam Smith & Montesquieu
Adam Smith the father of Capitalism. Most known for his book "The Wealth of Nations."
Read his biography here.
Montesquieu, probably the most systematic student of government in the 18th century. We own his book "Spirit of Laws." He believed the best government was led by the aristocracy. Read his biography.
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Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant- Picture courtesy of University of Tennessee Martin. Read his biography.We own his book "The Critique of Pure Reason." He is noted for his saying "Ding an sich" describing the other world as "things in themselves."
- The fundamental principles of the Metaphysic of morals / Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten. English byCall Number: B 2766 .E6 A3 1949Publication Date: 1949
Books on The Enlightenment
Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment by Call Number: DA 690 .C2 G37 2002ISBN: 0521524970Publication Date: 2002-07-18This book attempts to defend the use of the term 'English Enlightenment' by using late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cambridge as an illustration of the widespread diffusion of some of the chief characteristics of the Enlightenment within the Church of England and the English 'Establishment' more generally. It also seeks to provide a social context for the dissemination of such ideas by indicating how the political and ecclesiastical consequences of such events as the Restoration, the Glorious Revolution and the French Revolution helped either to facilitate or to impede that linkage between Anglicanism and science which is sometimes referred to as 'the holy alliance'. In summary, the book argues that in the period 1660-88 there was little political or ecclesiastical encouragement for such an alliance while the period 1688-1760 was, by contrast, its heyday.
