Book/Printed Material Tolerance : the beacon of the Enlightenment

Title

• Tolerance : the beacon of the Enlightenment

Summary

• "Inspired by Voltaire's advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely diverse in style and topic, but all have in common a passionate commitment to equality, freedom, and tolerance. Each text resonates powerfully with the issues our world faces today. Tolerance was first published by the Société française d'étude du dix-huitième siècle (the French Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations in January 2015 as an act of solidarity and as a response to the surge of interest in Enlightenment values. With the support of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, it has now been translated by over 100 students and tutors of French at Oxford University."--Publisher's website.

Names

• Warman, Caroline, editor, translator

Created / Published

• Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, [2016]
• ©2016

Contents

• Introduction by Caroline Warman -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, 1789 -- 2. Voltaire, 'Prayer to God', from Treatise on Tolerance, 1763 -- 3. Three aphorisms from Denis Diderot, Philosophical Thoughts, 1746; Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, 1748; and Voltaire, Portable Philosophical Dictionary, 1764 -- 4. Nicolas de Condorcet, 'On Admitting Women to the Rights of Citizenship', 1790 -- 5. John Locke, Letter on Toleration, 1686 -- 6. Denis Diderot, 'Aius Locutius', from the Encyclopédie, 1751 -- 7. Montesquieu, 'On the Enslavement of Negroes', from The Spirit of the Laws -- 8. Jean-François Marmontel, 'Minds are not Enlightened by the Flames of an Executioner's Pyre', from Belisarius, 1767 -- 9. Three aphorisms from Diderot The Philosopher and Marshal ***'s Wife Have a Deep Chat, 1774; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile, or On Education, 1762; and Frederick the Great of Prussia -- 10. Abbé Grégoire, On Freedom of Worship, 1794 -- 11. Immanuel Kant, 'Dare to Know', from What is Enlightenment?, 1784 -- 12. Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro, 1784 -- 13. Pierre Bayle, On Tolerance, or A philosophical Commentary on these Words of the Gospel, Luke XIV. 23, Compel Them to Come in, 1686 -- 14. Alexandre Deleyre, 'Fanaticism', from the Encyclopédie,1756 -- 15. Four aphorisms from Louis de Jaucourt, 'Intolerant', from the Encyclopédie, 1765;William Warburton, Essay on Egyptian Hieroglyphics, 1744; Rousseau, Émile, or On Education; and Anon., 'Refugees', from the Encyclopédie, 1765 -- 16. Jean le Rond d'Alembert, On the Suppression of the Jesuits, 1765 -- 17. Jeanne-Marie Roland, Personal Memoirs, 1795 -- 18. Evariste de Parny, The War of the Gods, 1799 -- 19. Olympe de Gouges, The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen, 1791 -- 20. Pierre Bayle, On Tolerance, 1686 -- 21. Voltaire, La Henriade, 1723 -- 22. Three aphorisms from Diderot, The Eleutheromaniacs, 1772; Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762; and Moses Mendelssohn, Morning Hours, 1786 -- 23. Montesquieu, The Persian Letters, 1721 -- 24. Abbé Grégoire, 'New Observations on the Jews and in Particular on the Jews of Amsterdam and Frankfurt', 1807 -- 25. Rétif de la Bretonne, Paris Nights, 1788 -- 26. Three aphorisms from Diderot, Philosophical Thoughts; Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments, 1786; and Rousseau, The Social Contract -- 27. Voltaire, Candide, 1759 -- 28. d'Alembert, 'Geometer', from the Encyclopédie, 1757 -- 29. Rabaut Saint-Étienne, 'No Man Should Be Harassed for His Opinions nor Troubled in the Practice of His Religion', 1789 -- 30. Three aphorisms from Diderot, 'Letter to My Brother', 1760; Voltaire, Treatise on Metaphysics, 1735; and Rousseau, The Citizen, or An Address on Political Economy, 1765 -- 31. Diderot, Extract from a Letter to Princess Dashkova, 3 April 1771 -- 32. Voltaire, 'Free Thinking', from Dictionaryof Philosophy, 1764 -- 33. Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, 'Reflections on Slavery', from A Voyage to the Island of Mauritius, 1773 -- 34. Pierre de Marivaux, The French Spectator, 5 October 1723 -- 35. Louis-Alexandre Devérité, Collected Documents of Interest on the Case of the Desecration of the Abbeville Crucifix, which Occurred on 9th August 1765, 1776 -- 36. Anon., The Private and Public Life of the Posterior Marquis de Villette, Retroactive Citizen, 1791 -- 37. Three aphorisms from Diderot, Philosophical Thoughts; Marivaux, The French Spectator; and Pierre Jean George Cabanis, On Sympathy, 1802 -- 38. Leandro Fernández de Moratín, 'A Philanthropic Congregation', 1811 -- 39. Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws -- 40. Voltaire, 'On Universal Tolerance', 1763 -- 41. Three aphorisms from Diderot, Philosophical Thoughts; Marivaux, The French Spectator; and Voltaire, 'Fanaticisme', from Portable Philosophical Dictionary -- 42. Condorcet, Anti-superstitious Almanack, 1773-1774 -- 43. Montesquieu, Persian Letters -- 44. José Cadalso y Vázquezde Andrade, Defence of the Spanish Nation against Persian Letter 78 by Montesquieu, 1775 -- 45. Nicolas-Edme Rétif, known as Rétif de la Bretonne, Ninth Juvenal. The False Immorality of the Freedom of the Press, 1796 -- 46. Condorcet, Anti-superstitious Almanack 47. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan the Wise, 1779 -- 48. Three aphorisms from Germaine de Staël, Reflections on the French Revolution, 1818; Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments; and Rousseau, Reveries of a Solitary Walker, 1782 -- 49. Luis Guttiérez, Cornelia Bororquia, or the Inquisition's Victim, 1801 -- 50. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, 'Fraternal Harmonies', 1815 -- 51. Diderot, Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage, 1772 -- 52. Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon, Memoirs, posthumous -- 53. Three aphorisms from Alexandre Deleyre, 'Fanaticism', from the Encyclopédie; Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, 1789; and Voltaire, Letter to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 9 November 1764 -- 54. Helvétius, Essays on the Mind, 1758 -- 55. Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Portrait of Paris, 1781 -- 56. Juan Pablo Forner, In Praise of Spain and its Literary Merit, 1786 -- 57. Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, 'The Two Persians', 1792 -- 58. Three aphorisms from Rousseau, Émile, or on Education; Voltaire, Letter to the King of Prussia, 20 December 1740; and Jaucourt, 'Tolerance', censored article from the Encyclopédie -- 59. Voltaire, On the Horrible Danger of Reading, 1765.

Headings

• -  Enlightenment--France--Influence
• -  Philosophy, French--18th century--Sources
• -  Toleration
• -  France--Intellectual life--18th century--Sources

Notes

• -  A link to the original French edition of this book is available from the publisher's Web site: Tolerance: le combat des Lumières. Paris : Société française d'étude du dix-huitième siècle, 2015.
• -  Statement of responsibility is transcribed exactly as found on the title page.
• -  Includes bibliographical references.
• -  Translated from the French.
• -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website ; viewed on 2020-03-23).

Medium

• 1 online resource (viii, 136 pages) : illustrations (some color)

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• B1925.E5

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• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2019467881

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• 2019467881

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