LINKS TO SHORT READINGS NOT IN THE ASSIGNED TEXTS:
Week I Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan 1651 -- selections on states of nature, war, society
Madame de Sevigne, Letter to her daughter
Week IV Bossuet Politics taken from the very words of Holy Scripture
Week VI Daniel Gordon, Introduction to Candide
Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (from Handout #7)
Optional: Voltaire's poem on Lisbon Earthquake
Week VII Voltaire Letter to Rousseau
Week VIII
Olympe de Gouge, Preface to Queen Marie Antoinette
Olympe de Gouges, Declaration of the Rights of Women