Enlightenment+and+Locke+and+Newton

Wassim Alsafi

Prompt:In what ways did Enlightenment thinkers build on or make use of the ideas of Newton and Locke?

Thesis: The enlightenment built on Newton's idea that the universe can be predicted mathematically to also predict economics and politics and on Locke's idea that humans are born with blank minds and must learn how to live.


 * 1) Many enlightenment thinkers embraced Newtons predictable universe and expanded it.
 * Newton's //Principia//
 * Newton's laws of universal gravitation
 * Newton's three laws of motion
 * D'holbach's //System of Nature//
 * // // Montesquieu's //Spirit of the Laws// // //
 * Smith's //Wealth of Nations//
 * // Bayle's //Historical and Critical Dictionary// //
 * // // The //Encyclopedia// // //
 * Diderot
 * Rousseau's //The Social Contract//
 * // Voltaire's //Philosophical letters on the English// //
 * 1) John Locke's tabula rasa changed the way people thought and affected the enlightenment
 * John Locke's tabula rasa
 * // David Hume's //Treatise on Human Nature// //
 * Rousseau's //Emile//
 * // Voltaire's //Candide// //
 * // Condorcet's //Progress of the Human Mind// //
 * Rousseau's //Discourses on the Origins of the Inequalities of Men//
 * Hume's //Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding//