18th century in philosophy explained

This is a timeline of the 18th century in philosophy

Events

• The Age of Enlightenment

Publications

• The Lives of the Ancient Philosophers (London, 1702)^[1]
• Mary Astell, Moderation Truly Stated (London, 1704)^[2]
• Giambattista Vico, The New Science (1725)
• David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740)^[3]

Births

• Jonathan Edwards was born in 1703.^[4]
• 2 April 1725 - Giacomo Casanova (died 1798)

Deaths

• John Locke died in 1704.^[5]
• Montesquieu dies in 1755

See also

• List of centuries in philosophy

References

• Aaron Garrett. The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy. Routledge. London and New York. 2014. Google Books
• Knud Haakonssen (ed). The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. 2006. Volume 1.
• Lewis White Beck (ed). Eighteenth-Century Philosophy. (Readings in the History of Philosophy). The Free Press. 1966. https://books.google.com/books?id=oZqELQHOjXwC&pg=PP1
• Jing-Xing Huang and C S Huang. Philosophy, Philology, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century China. Cambridge University Press. 1995. First paperback edition. 2002. Google Books.

Notes and References

1. For a scan of this book, see Google Books. For commentary, see Constance W T Blackwell (general editor, English Edition), Giovanni Santinello (ed), Models of the History of Philosophy, Springer Science+Business Media, 1993, pp 169 & 198.
2. Jacqueline Broad. The Philosophy of Mary Astell: An Early Modern Theory of Virtue. Oxford University Press. 2015. Chapter 8. Page 149. For a scan of "Moderation Truly Stated", see Google Books.
3. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/261026/a-treatise-of-human-nature-by-david-hume/9780140432442/ Penguin Random House
4. Friedrich Ueberweg. History of Philosophy: From Thales to the Present Time. Scribner, Armstrong & Co. New York. 1876. Volume 2. Page 443.
5. John Locke (1632–1704): Political Theorist, Philosopher, Physician, Polymath. Durham University Library. 1990. Google Books