3 books to know Age of Enlightenment
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Table of Contents
Introduction
What is Enlightenment?
Discourse on the Method
Prefatory note by the author
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part VI
The Social Contract
Foreword
Book I
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
Book II
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
Book III
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
Book IV
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
The Authors
About the Publisher
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Title Page
Introduction
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But would not a society of clergymen, perhaps a church conference or a venerable classis (as they call themselves among the Dutch), be justified in obligating itself by oath to a certain unchangeable symbol in order to enjoy an unceasing guardianship over each of its numbers and thereby over the people as a whole, and even to make it eternal? I answer that this is altogether impossible. Such contract, made to shut off all further enlightenment from the human race, is absolutely null and void even if confirmed by the supreme power, by parliaments, and by the most ceremonious of peace treaties. An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge, purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, the proper destination of which lies precisely in this progress and the descendants would be fully justified in rejecting those decrees as having been made in an unwarranted and malicious manner.
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