The dream of enlightenment: the rise of modern philosophy

The Kingdome of darknesse

Chronological chart

Starting afresh : Descartes

The monster of Malmesbury : Hobbes

A breeze of the future : Spinoza

Philosophy for the British : Locke

An interlude on a comet : Bayle

The best of all possible compromises : Leibniz

A treatise of animal nature : Hume

What has the Enlightenment ever done for us? : Voltaire, Rousseau, and the Philosophes.