MOUNT CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY

PATHFINDER - THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Below you will find web sites, databases and MC library print materials to help you in your research on this topic.

MC Library Print Resources:

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VOL

Candide (Voltaire) 320.5 Hob
Hobbes: "The Theory of Individual Rights, the Leviathan"
B Various Biographies 509 K685m Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times
CB Math Men of Mathematics 509 Sp23h

The History of Science From the Ancient Greeks to the Scientific Revolution

108 C737m
Man & the State/The Political Philosophers
(Hobbes, Locke, Mill, Rousseau)
709 C854a
Art in Europe 1700-1830
108 F852p
The Pleasures of Philosophy (Hume) 709 G585 The Story of Art
109 R911h
A History of Western Philosophy 780.9 L255m Music in Western Civilization
190 Gay The Enlightenment (For discussion of absolutism)

808.8 H

Harvard Classics
Berkeley, Hobbes, Locke, Hume
Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire
190 M178g

Great Thinkers of the Western World
(Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Locke, Rousseau)

901.9 Tie Great Issues in Western Civilization
193 Kan The Categorical Imperative – "The Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals (Kant) 940.2 G253a Age of Enlightenment
193 K135c Critique of Pure Reason (Kant) 940.2 N548a
The Age of Reason : The 18th c. in Reason & Violence (Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Catherine)
194 Des Descartes Selections 940.23 D932a The Age of Reason Begins
194 Hen Hume Selections 940.25 Dur Rousseau and Revolution
194 Rob Introducing Rousseau 940.25 D932a The Age of Louis XIV
210 Byr Religion and the Enlightenment, From Descartes to Kant 940.25 D932a The Age of Voltaire
270.8 D227c
The Church in the 18th Century (Joseph II and most other people) 940.25 D932a Rousseau and Revolution
309.142 H Reformation to Industrial Revolution 944 C712c
France
320.01 Loc
Locke: The Second Treatise of Government 944.041 B224r
The Rights of Man, The Reign of Terror
320.01 Rou Rousseau: "The Social Contract" 947 C561h
A History of Russia
REFERENCE:      
Ref 031 N The Catholic Encyclopedia Reference Encyclopedia Britannica
REF 940.25
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (2 vols) Ref 909 Wes Western Civilization (2 vols)
Ref 509.2 Gre The Great Scientists Great Books Selected works of influential thinkers
Ref CB

Abridged Encyclopedia of World Biography

   


Selected Websites:

The Catholic Encyclopedia
Library has print version as well.

The European Enlightenment
Comprehensive information on the European Age of Enlightenment including primary sources from art, literature, philosophy.

Modern History Sourcebook – The Enlightenment
Primary sources on different aspects of the Enlightenment – religion, society, economics, politics, philosophy, etc.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Search this encyclopedia from Stanford University for a philosopher.


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Suggested Databases:

World History: Modern Era
Find descriptions of events, places and cultural developments in world history as well as biographies, primary sources, maps, and web links. See Mrs. Pienton for remote access id and password.

 

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