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commerce (cont.)
eighteenth-century understanding of,
253; European discourse about the
relationship among travel, com-
merce, and the rights of hospitality,
297n. 14; Herder on, 253–54; Kant on,
195
commercium, 98, 195
Condorcet, Marquis de, 4, 160, 322n. 17
Conquest of Granada, The (Dryden),
287n. 1
Constant, Benjamin, 5
Corr´eal, Fran¸cois, 40
Cort´es, Hern´an, 90
cosmopolitanism, 95, 150, 152–54, 168,
210, 226, 313n. 28. See also Kant: on
cosmopolitan right
‘Counter-Enlightenment’, 210
crusades, the, 104, 217, 254
cultura, 8, 175, 304n. 31
cultural agency, 7–8, 11, 46, 67, 69, 124,
174, 268, 274–75; Diderot on, 79, 92,
121, 274–76; Herder on, 228, 232,
257, 274–76; Kant on, 124, 125–33,
135–38, 140, 141, 144–55, 162–69,
174–75, 177–78, 181, 257, 274–76,
303n. 23
culture, 8, 294–95n. 67; centrality of to
human existence, 69; in contrast to
nineteenth-century view of cultures, 7,
318n. 10; Herder on, 318n. 10; human
dependence on cultural knowledge, 69;
Kant on, 131, 136–37, 144–45, 170–
71, 301n. 15
d’Alembert, Jean, 72
d’Arce, Louis-Armand de lom. See Lahon-
tan, Baron de
Davis, David Brion, 3, 11–12
Defoe, Daniel, 147
De l’homme (Helv´etius), 80
demographics, 57–58; Rousseau’s prescrip-
tion for, 293n. 54
Denmark, 107–8
d’Holbach, Baron de, 265
Diderot, Denis, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 20, 270;
“Black Spartacus” prediction, 109, 299n.
25; Ceci n’est pas un conte [This is not a
story], 49; on church and state, 113–14;
on ‘civilization’, 118–19; classification of
peoples, 181; on climate, 53–54; on col-
onization, 74–76, 101–2, 105–6, 111,
315n. 37; on commerce, 85, 86, 97–
104; commitment to humanistic con-
cepts and principles in later thought,
297n. 11; contributions to the Histoire
des deux Indes, 58, 66, 70, 72–76, 100,
109, 118, 205, 234, 295n. 2, 314n. 35;
on cultural agency, 79, 92, 121, 274–
76; on the cyclical process of history, 84;
on dignity, 269–74; on diverse ways of
life, 80–84; “Droit Naturel” [“Natural
Right”], 77–78; as editor of the Encyclo-
p´edie, 57; on the effects of empire on
Europeans, 104–11; Encyclop´edie, 72; on
European imperialism, 87–97; on the
general will of humanity, 74, 77–80, 86,
92, 95, 121, 296n. 10; “Hobbism,” 51–
52; on hospitality, 84–86; on human
needs and property relations, 60–63; on
incommensurability, 81, 121, 276; influ-
ence of Lahontan on, 24; on injustices
against aboriginal peoples, 67; Madame
de La Carli`ere, 49, 292n. 46; on ‘natural
humanity’, 66–71; on ‘natural’ religion,
26; Observations sur le Nakaz, 51, 53,
62; on patriotism, 95; on philosophers/
philosophy, 119; on property rights, 62–
63, 93–94; on the relationship between
self-interest and social goods, 59; rela-
tionship with Rousseau, 47–49; on reli-
gion, 112; review of Bougainville’s
Voyage, 49; Rousseau’s influence on, 44–
45, 281; on slavery, 93, 105, 108–9,
298n. 24, 299n. 26; on sociability, 54–
57; on social life, 57–60; on social wel-
fare, 54–57; Suite de l’Apologie de l’abb´e
de Prades (1752), 51; Suppl´ement au
Voyage de Bougainville [Supplement to
Bougainville’s Voyage], 9, 27, 46–52, 58,
59, 63–65, 71, 78, 112, 117, 191–92,
292n. 48; on travel, 84–87, 96, 193–
94; on the unfitness of Europe as a civi-
lization for export, 111–21; use of dia-
logic device, 88–
89; on women, 63–66,
293n. 61
dignity, 7; Diderot on, 269–74; Herder
on, 258; Kant on, 124, 138–41, 143–
44, 169–70, 302–3n. 22
Dienstag, Joshua, 165
Diodorus, 236
Dryden, John, 287n. 1