The Enlightenment

 

Locke and Hobbes

Class Outline on Hobbes and Locke

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

Thomas Hobbes

Philosophers : Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes

 

primary sources online

Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan

 

John Stuart Mill

Class Outline

 John Stuart Mill Institute home page

John Stuart Mill

Philosophers : John Stuart Mill

Ethical Theory: Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill

Philosophers: John Stuart Mill

Philosophy 361 Course Materials

lectures on Mill's Ethics. A good resource for review.

Philosophers: John Stuart Mill

 

primary sources online:

The Subjection of Women

On Liberty

 

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine National Historical Assoc.

The Age of Paine

an article from Wired Magazine

 

Primary sources online

Archive of Thomas Paine Works

African Slavery in America

The Interactive American Crisis

Common Sense

James Chalmers and "Plain Truth"

A response to Thomas Paine

 

Voltaire

The Voltaire Society of America

lots of interesting links

 

primary sources online

Candide

Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

Letters on Newton from Letters on The English

 

David Hume

The Hume Society

The Hume Archives

an excellent resource for Hume research; includes primary sources and also eighteenth- century reviews of Hume.

 

Blaise Pascal

Class Outline

The Pascal Centre for Advanced Studies in Faith and Science

All You Ever Wanted To Know About Pascal's Triangle

Blaise Pascal

Pascal’s Childhood

Blaise Pascal

 

primary sources online

Pensees

 

The American Revolution

The Franco-American Alliance During the Revolutionary War

gopher://wiretap.spies....ov/US-History/paris.txt

The Revolutionary War: A Journey Towards Freedom

The History Place - American Revolution

www.revwar.com

Lots of links here.

 

primary sources online

The Declaration of Independence

The Patriots' Heroes' Page

find out what happened to the signers of the declaration

Loyalist and British Songs

 

The French Revolution

Class Outline: Burke on the French Revolution

A Tale of Two Revolutions

a comparison of the American and French Revolution. Article from The Freeman.

The Fall of Robespierre

The Napoleonic Association

The French Revolution   The Retructuring of France   Robespierre and the French Revolution  

The French Revolution

This is a very nice site, with links to the Mozart and David.

 

primary sources online

French Revolutionary Pamphlets

Blake's Bastille Poem

Here's another great source for us. William Blake's poem on the French Revolution.

The Parisian Stage During the French Revolution

Now here's a source for an intellectual and cultural history class. Check out plays performed during the French Revolution.

Le Nozze di Figaro

Mozart Opera which was seen as a protest

Charles Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities

Listen to James Mason read this text.

Dickens' Views on the French Revolution

an interesting companion to the Tale of Two Cities

Archive of Jacques Louis David Paintings

More David Paintings

WebMuseum -- Paris: David

 

General Resources on the Enlightenment

Eighteenth Century general resource for 18th century studies