Era
The long 18th century — Spinoza and Locke at its threshold, Hume, Diderot and d'Holbach at its center, Smith, Kant, Paine and Wollstonecraft carrying it to the edge of revolution.
- Works
- 75
- Chapters
- 1226
- Languages
- German, English
Zurückforderung der Denkfreiheit von den Fürsten Europens
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
German · 2 chapters
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
English · 4 chapters
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
English · 36 chapters
Discourse on the Method
René Descartes
English · 6 chapters
Ethics
Baruch Spinoza
English · 5 chapters
On the Improvement of the Understanding
Baruch Spinoza
English · 1 chapter
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
David Hume
English · 10 chapters
Selections from the Principles of Philosophy
René Descartes
English · 4 chapters
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
David Hume
English · 12 chapters
A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume
English · 6 chapters
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
English · 14 chapters
The Law of Freedom in a Platform; or, True Magistracy Restored
Gerrard Winstanley
English · 8 chapters
Rameau's Nephew
Denis Diderot
English · 1 chapter
Defence of Usury
Jeremy Bentham
English · 13 chapters
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Jeremy Bentham
English · 32 chapters
A Protest Against Law-Taxes
Jeremy Bentham
English · 2 chapters
An Essay on the Principle of Population (1st ed., 1798)
Thomas Robert Malthus
English · 20 chapters
An Essay on the History of Civil Society
Adam Ferguson
English · 36 chapters
Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind
Marquis de Condorcet
English · 2 chapters
Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Riches
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
English · 75 chapters
On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship
Marquis de Condorcet
English · 3 chapters
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
English · 61 chapters
Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue, and Arms
Adam Smith
English · 14 chapters
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
English · 25 chapters
A Vindication of the Rights of Men
Mary Wollstonecraft
English · 1 chapter
The Rights of Man
Thomas Paine
English · 6 chapters
Patriarcha non Monarcha
James Tyrrell
English · 6 chapters
Two Treatises of Government
John Locke
English · 31 chapters
The Natural History of Religion
David Hume
English · 17 chapters
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Cesare Beccaria
English · 71 chapters
Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works on the Theory of Ethics
Immanuel Kant
English · 90 chapters
The Social Contract and Discourses
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
English · 61 chapters
Emile, or On Education
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
English · 11 chapters
Kant's Principles of Politics, including his Essay on Perpetual Peace
Immanuel Kant
English · 28 chapters
The Critique of Judgement
Immanuel Kant
English · 20 chapters
An Essay on the First Principles of Government
Joseph Priestley
English · 11 chapters
The Case of Ireland's Being Bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated
William Molyneux
English · 2 chapters
Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty
Richard Price
English · 16 chapters
An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species
Thomas Clarkson
English · 32 chapters
Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, 1789
Arthur Young
English · 8 chapters
Selections from the Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense
Thomas Reid and others
English · 14 chapters
The Ruins, or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires
Constantin-François Volney
English · 38 chapters
Remarks Concerning the Government and Laws of the United States of America
Abbé de Mably
English · 5 chapters
An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution
Mary Wollstonecraft
English · 19 chapters
Four Tracts on Political and Commercial Subjects
Josiah Tucker
English · 14 chapters
Selected Political Writings and Speeches
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
English · 24 chapters
Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
Joseph Priestley
English · 2 chapters
Observations on the Reflections of Edmund Burke on the Revolution in France
Catharine Macaulay
English · 2 chapters
The Rights of Nature against the Usurpations of Establishments
John Thelwall
English · 1 chapter
A Discourse of Standing Armies
Thomas Gordon
English · 1 chapter
Political Essays on the Nature and Operation of Money
Pelatiah Webster
English · 2 chapters
Toleration and Other Essays
Voltaire
English · 73 chapters
Man a Machine
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
English · 1 chapter
On Revelation
Baron d'Holbach
English · 1 chapter
Elements of Universal Morality, or Universal Catechism
Baron d'Holbach
English · 1 chapter
On Religious Cruelty
Baron d'Holbach
English · 1 chapter
Tableau of Saints
Baron d'Holbach
English · 1 chapter
Critical History of Jesus Christ
Baron d'Holbach
English · 1 chapter
Essay on the Art of Crawling, for the Use of Courtiers
Baron d'Holbach
English · 1 chapter
Regrets for my Old Dressing Gown
Denis Diderot
English · 1 chapter
Thoughts on Religion
Denis Diderot
English · 1 chapter
Freedom of Thought
Denis Diderot
English · 1 chapter
Maimonides
Denis Diderot
English · 1 chapter
Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising the Value of Money
John Locke
English · 5 chapters
An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy
James Steuart
English · 112 chapters
Theologico-Political Treatise, Part 3
Baruch Spinoza
English · 7 chapters
Theologico-Political Treatise, Part 1
Baruch Spinoza
English · 8 chapters
Theologico-Political Treatise, Part 4
Baruch Spinoza
English · 4 chapters
Theologico-Political Treatise, Part 2
Baruch Spinoza
English · 8 chapters
Aesthetical Essays
Friedrich Schiller
English · 29 chapters
Philosophical Letters
Friedrich Schiller
English · 1 chapter
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
George Berkeley
English · 1 chapter
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
George Berkeley
English · 3 chapters
The Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
English · 19 chapters
Second Treatise of Government
John Locke
English · 20 chapters