Assignment in Kramnick, "Portable Enlightenment Reader," round 1

The syllabus listing for the assignments in Isaac Kramnick, ed., The Portable Enlightenment Reader, is incomplete and slightly inaccurate. Here is what you should be reading for the first assignment in the book, which is by far the largest.

• Introduction (very important)
• Part I: selections by Kant, Condorcet
• Part II: selections by Bacon, Newton, Voltaire, Condorcet, Priestley, Franklin
• Part III: selections by Locke, Shaftesbury, Newton, Gibbon
  
• Part IV: Mind and Ideas --selections by Descartes, Locke, Voltaire, Hume; Education and Childhood -- selections by Locke, Rousseau & Priestley; Manners and Morals -- selections by Mandeville and Hutcheson
  
• Part V: Progress and History --selections by Priestley, Ferguson, & Condorcet; Politics and the State -- selections by Locke, Rousseau, & Montesquieu; Economy and Markets -- selection by Adam Smith
  

If you bog down in this material, the introduction and the selections from Locke are by far the most important. The discussion questions may point you to other specific selections.