Rambling Raconteur | The Enlightenment - the Pursuit of Happiness by Ritchie Robertson @ramblingraconteur1616 | Uploaded July 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
A discussion of Robertson’s excellent, exhaustive book and some of the mane writers and thinkers he drew from.

Works mentioned:
Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, and writings of Voltaire
Emile, Julie, The Social Contract, Discourse on Inequality, The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Writings of Immanuel Kant
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
The Spectator by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
The Wealth of Nations and Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
Vanity of Human Wishes by Samuel Johnson
Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell
Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Principia by Isaac Newton
Discourse on the Method by Rene Descartes
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller
Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
Treatise on Human Nature by David Hume
Writings of Thomas Jefferson
Rameau’s Nephew, D’Alembert’s Dream, Encyclopedia, and writings of Denis Diderot
Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Writings of Jeremy Bentham
The Black Jacobins by CLR James
When the World Spoke French by Marc Fumaroli
The Crisis of the European Mind by Paul Hazard
Poetry of Alexander Pope
Memory of Fire: Faces and Masks by Eduardo Galeano, my discussion: youtu.be/n8v-QZG3HNU
London Journal of James Boswell: youtu.be/7b-VhQGhzPM

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