Texts Online
- Denis Diderot - Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville
- Michel Foucault - What is Enlightenment?
- Hobbes - Leviathan (1651)
- Jefferson - The Declaration of Independence
- Immanuel Kant - What is Enlightenment?
- John Locke - Second Treatise of Government
- The Putney Debates
- Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy in America (word doc)
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Key Passages
- Galileo - from a letter to the Illustrious and Very Reverend Don Virginio Cesarini
- Descartes - Discourse on Method (1637)
- Pascal - Pensées - The Wager
- Hobbes - Leviathan
- Locke - The Second Treatise of Government
- Weber - The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1930)
- Defoe - Robinson Crusoe (1719)
- Montesquieu Persian Letters (1721)
- Rousseau - Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1755)
- Rousseau - Social Contract
- Voltaire - Candide (1759)
- Franklin - The Art of Virtue
- Burke - Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Paine - The Rights of Man (1792)
- Wollstonecraft - Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Shelley - Frankenstein