Enlightenment+vs+Northern+Renaissance

Peter Hong

Enlightenment:

North Renaissance Ideals:
-Evolved from Italian Renaissance -One major goal: Reform of Christianity -Christian Humanism -Translated classics for printing press, and sought to find ethical content of Christian works -Holy Scripture, writings of Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome -Discovered simple religion -Belief that inner piety/true inward feeling would bring reform to church and society -Erasmus: Wanted to reform Christianity -"Adages" - Anthology of proverbs -"Handbook of the Christian Knight" -actual faith and not the external forms of religion -People needed to understand the Bible -"Praise of Folly" -Was not trying to destroy Christianity -Thomas More: ideal Christian -"Utopia"

Enlightenment Ideals:

-use science/philosophy in analyzing life -Bayle: "Dictionary" - Attacked heroes and practices -Montesquieu: "Persian Letters" - Criticized France -"Spirit of the Laws" -Voltaire: "Oedipe" and "Philosophic Letters on the English" -Admired England's tolerance of religion, freedom of press, and freedom of political thought -Known for criticism of traditional religion toleration and defended Jean Calas -"Treatise of Toleration" -Came up with idea of Deism -Newtonian world-machine -God created the universe and gave it laws -Diderot: "Encyclopedia" -"Science of Man" - David Hume -"Wealth of Nations" Adam Smith -D'Holbach: "System of Nature" -Condorcet: "Progress of the Human Mind" -Rousseau: "Discourse on Origins of the Inequality of Mankind" -"Social Contract"