Aquinas, T. (1975). Summa contra gentiles, book III: Providence, part I (V. J. Bourke, Trans.) Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
2.
Becker, C. (2004). The heavenly city of the eighteenth-century philosophers (2nd ed.). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. (Original work published 1932)
3.
Bruckner, P. (2000). L’Euphorie perpétuelle: essai sur le devoir de bonheur [Perpetual euphoria: Essay on the duty of happiness]. Paris: Éditions Grasset et Fasquelle.
4.
Ferry, L. (1996). L’Homme-Dieu, ou le Sens de la vie [The Man-God, or the meaning of life]. Paris: Éditions Grasset &! Fasquelle.
5.
Gauchet, M. (2001). Croyances religieuses, croyances politiques [Religious beliefs, political beliefs]. Le Débat, 115, 3-4.
6.
Gay, P. (1964). Carl Becker’s heavenly city. In The party of humanity: Essays in the French Enlightenment. New York: Knopf. (Original work published 1956)
7.
Gay, P. (1966-1969). The Enlightenment: An interpretation. New York: Knopf.
8.
Helvétius, C. A. (1795). Le Bonheur, poëme allégorique [Happiness, an allegorical poem]. In Oeuvres complètes d’Helvétius (Vol. 13). Paris: Chez Didot.
9.
James, W. (1994). The varieties of religious experience. New York: Modern Library.
10.
Johnson, S. (1985). The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. London: Penguin.
11.
Lilla, M. (2001). Ignorance and bliss. Wilson Quarterly, 25, 64-75.
12.
Marx, K. (1983). Contribution to the critique of Hegel’s philosophy of the right: Introduction. In E. Kamenka (Ed.), The portable Marx (pp. 115-124). New York: Penguin.
13.
McMahon, D. (2004). From the happiness of virtue to the virtue of happiness: 400 B.C.-A.D. 1780. Daedalus, 133, 5-17.
14.
Pape, W. (1992). Happy endings in a world of misery: A literary convention between social constraints and utopia in children’s and adult literature. Poetics Today, 13, 179-196.
15.
Pestré, A. (1966-1967). Bonheur [Happiness]. In Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences des arts et des métiers (Vol. 2, p. 322). Stuttgart, Germany: Friedrich Fromann Verlag.
16.
Plato. (2005). The euthydemus (B. Jowett, Trans.). Retrieved May 4, 2005, from http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/euthydemus
17.
Porter, R. (2000). The creation of the modern world: The untold story of the British Enlightenment. New York: Norton.
18.
Roche, D. (1998). France in the Enlightenment (A. Goldhammer, Trans.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
19.
Voltaire. (1965). The story of a good Brahmin. In B. R. Redman (Ed.), The portable Voltaire (pp. 436-439). New York: Viking.
20.
Voltaire. (2003). Le Mondain [The man of the world]. In The complete works of Voltaire (pp. 295-303). Oxford, UK: Voltaire Foundation.
21.
Wright, J. K. (2004). Forward. In C. Becker, The heavenly city of the eighteenth-century philosophers (2nd ed., pp. ix-xix). New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
