History 388: Great Personalities in History
“Adam Smith and the Philosophers”

Gregory S. Brown
895 – 4181; gbrown@unlv.edu
M, W, F 10;30 - 11:20; CBC C316

Lecture Handouts:

 

1. Immanuel Kant, "Was ist Aufklarung?"
2. D'Alembert "Great Minds"
3. Locke on Education

4. Condorcet, "Progress of the Human Mind"

5. Isaac Newton
6. Condorcet on scientific progress
7. Isaac Newton on the Deity
8. Pierre Bayle

9. John Locke on Toleration

10. Moses Mendelssohn

11. Shaftesbury

12. Voltaire on religion in England

13. David Hume on religion
14. J-J Rousseau, Confession of faith of a vicar of Savoy
15. Tom Paine, Age of Reason

16. J. de la Mettre, Man, a Machine

17. Denis Diderot, D'alembert's Dream

18. Voltaire on English manners

19. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

20. Mandeville, Fable of the Bees
21. Hutcheson on "moral sense"

22. Montesquieu, Persian Letters (1)

23. Second Paper topics (due April 11)

24. Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (I)

25. Diderot, "Rameau's Nephew"

26. Diderot, "Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage"

27. Gibbon, "Civilization and Savages"

28. Montesquieu, Persian Letters (2)

29. Rousseau, "First and second discourses"

30. Rousseau, Social Contract [Book 1]

31. Montesquieu, Spirit of the laws [of republics]

32. Smith, Moral Sentiments [on society]