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Title: ENLIGHTENMENT


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ENLIGHTENMENT
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Enlightenment
  • Names itself
  • Human reason surpasses every evil
  • Target religion and aristocracy

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Historical Background
  • Institutions not keeping up
  • Bourgeoisie
  • Early aristocratic support

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Philosophes
  • Progress
  • Tolerance
  • Systematic Knowledge
  • Human Reason
  • Deism

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Deists
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Salonnières
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Rational Humanists
  • Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws
  • Rousseau's Discourse on the Moral Effects of the
    Arts and Sciences
  • Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie

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Encyclopédie
  • Diderot dAlembert
  • 1751 first volume
  • Banned and finished in secret
  • 72,000 entries 200 writers in 28 volumes.

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Encyclopédie
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Changes during the Enlightenment
  • Scientific Achievements
  • Arts and Literature
  • Philosophy
  • Social Reform

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Scientific Achievements
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Scientific Achievements
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Scientific Achievements
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Scientific Achievements
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Charles Louis Montesquieu (1686-1755)
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Samuel Johnson
  • 1746-1775
  • Englishman contributing to national literature

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Jean Jacques Rousseau (1717-1778)
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Edward Gibbons (1737-1794)
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Voltaire (1694-1778)
  • Francois Marie-Arouet
  • Summarizes events of the complex 18th Century

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716)
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Social Reforms
  • Casare de Beccaria
  • Slavery
  • Education
  • Condorcet
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