Index
Germany 151
God 100
Alembert, J . le Rond d' Goethe , J . W. von 161
60-3
Physiocrats 104
politics 96-105
British 39, 103
Locke 41 , 42
American Revolution 145 Hamann , Georg 158-9 Pope, the 29 art 78-9 Helvetius, C.-A. 89-90 psychology 14 Bacon , Francis 41, 42 Holbach , Baron d' 91-2 Bauman, Zygmunt 173 Hume, David 121-5, 132 Quesnay, Frangois 137 Blake, William 155-7 industry and science 59 reason 10 British politics 39 , 103 religion 114-17, 119-22 Bufton, Comte de 86 Jaucourt , Ch. de 61 , 64 freedom 7 Catherine the Great 107 Jefferson , Thomas 41 , Voltaire 36-7 Catholic Church , France 148 see also Catholic
Johnson , Samuel 142-3
112
causality 124
censorship 58
Chatelet, Marquise du 56-7 158
Church, France ; God
Robespierre , Maximilien
Kant, Immanuel 151-2 , 168
Romanticism 133 , 172
Condillac , Etienne 11 Kierkegaard, S0ren 158 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques consciousness 12 19, 80-3 , 128-33 , Coste, Pierre 12 labour 139-41 140-1 crafts and trades 64 Linnaeus, Carl 85 after death 169-71
Locke , John 6, 9-11 ,
Russell, Bertrand 125
Declaration of
Independence 146
14-16 , 41,43
London
Desaguliers , J.T. 47 , 69 coffee houses 9
Descartes , Rene 1 o
growth 8
Dictionary of the English
Language 142
Malesherbes, C.-G. de
Diderot, Denis 50 , 60-1, 70-3
74-7, 93, 110-11 materialism 87-90
Russia 107
Saint-Just, L.-A . de 168
salons 54-5
science 124
and industry 59
Newton 44-7
self , the 125
Catherine the Gt. 107-9 mathematics, Newton
and Rousseau 131
44-7
Shaftesbury , Lord 6
slavery 148-50
see also Encyclopedie Mendelssohn, Moses 117 Smith , Adam 134-43
Mesmer , Franz 59
Spirit of the Laws, The
economics 135-41
education 164
Mettrie , J.O . de la 88
miracles 120-1
33, 100-2
Sterne, Laurence 14
Encyclopedie 60-70 , 107 monarchies 4
explained 77
Rousseau 80
Enlightenment
those against 155
Montesquieu, Baron
25-35 , 41 , 98-104
politics 96-103
music 126-7
defined 153-4
Sturm und Orang 160-1
System of Nature 92
Theory of Moral
Sentiments 136, 140
Tristram Shandy 15
end of 168
language 4
today 172-3
natural law theory 100 Turgot, A.-R .-J. 165
nature 84-6, 120
Newton, Isaac 41, 44-7 understanding, limits of 13
Epinay, Madame d' 55 "noble savage" , the 24-5 universe , Newton 45 Essay Concerning Human Nouvelle Heloise , La 130
Understanding 6, 10, 15 novels 17-23
experience 1 0, 17
Paris society 5
Voltaire 19-21, 47, 50, 56-7
exiled in England 34-9
Frederick the Great 106
Franklin, Benjamin 144, 147 Persian Letters, The
religion 114
Frederick II 106, 117
freemasonry 118-19
26-32,35
vs . Rousseau 83
philosophes, the 48-54 , 58 on social injustice 162-4
French , language of the materialism 87
Enlightenment 4-5
French Revolution 8,
166-7 , 172
politics 1 04-5
Watt, James 59
and Rousseau 130
Wealth of Nations 138-9
see also Encyclopedie women 52-7
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