Enlightenment

Katie Sauer

Describe the new ideas of the Enlightenment and analyze the responses they initiated.

· Fontanelle: novels made scientific discoveries popular · Locke: //Essay Concerning Human Understanding// o Tabula rasa: blank mind · Bayle: //Dictionary// attacked Bible and religion · Montesquieu: //Spirit of the Laws// · Secondat: //Persian Letters// · Voltaire: //Candide// o “crush the infamous thing” · Diderot: //Encyclopedia// – antichristian · Hume: //Treatise on Human Nature// · Smith: //Wealth of Nations// · D’ Holbach: //System of Nature// · Condorcet: //Progress of the Human Mind// · Rousseau o // Discourse on the Origin of Equality // o // Emile // o // Social Contract // · Astell o //A Serious Proposal to the Ladies// o // Some Reflections upon Marriage // · Wollstonecraft: //Vindication of the Rights of Women// · De Geoffrin: owned salon where the enlightened thinkers would come to discuss ideas

Brians, Paul. "The Enlightenment." //Washington State University - Pullman, Washington//. 11 Mar. 1998. Web. 23 Apr. 2011. <[].>