Greg's Sets on the Enlightenment(check it out-you know you want to!)
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- Wesley
- Methodism---converted to ideas of Moravin Brethen during storm. Protestant Revivalism brought through emotion. All can be saved by experiencing God.
- Physiocrats
- economic reformers who believed mercantilist policies and labor regulation by government and guilds hampered expansion of trade and agriculture
- Condorcet
- Wrote The Progress of the Human Mind. He identified humans will go through 10 stages of progress. They were about to enter the tenth where humans will be perfect in understanding.
- Laissez-Faire
- No gov't interaction with economics. "hands-off"
- Bayle
- Wrote Dictionary. A religous skeptic who attacked superstition, religous attitudes, and dogmatism.
- Hume
- Wrote Treatise on Human Nature. Said that observation made possible the study of man.
- Wollstonecraft
- (1759-1797) wrote 'Vindication of the Rights of Woman', accused Rousseau of attempting to narrow women's vision/limit their experience, said denying education to women would impede humanity's progress
- Holbach
- wrote "System of Nature", which said humans are only machines and have no free will- created a rift between atheist and deist thinkers within the enlightened group
- Diderot
- Wrote Encyclopedia. Vicously attacked Christianity calling it "dogmatic" and the "most fanatical religion of all". His Encyclopedia spread Enlightened ideas very far.
- Kant
- "Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!"
- Astell
- Wrote A Serious Proposal to the Ladies & Some Reflections Upon Marriage. She wanted women to be educated and argued for equality in marriage.
- Voltaire
- he did not like the slave trade and wanted tolerance of everyone and freedom of speech
- David
- French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French Revolution (1748-1825)
- Locke
- He wrote "Essay Concerning Human Understanding". Denied Descartes belief in innate ideas. Offered the "tabula rasa" theory., English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)
- Beccaria
- (1738-1794) wrote 'On Crimes and Punishments', wanted laws to conform to rational laws of nature
- Rococo
- fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century
- Smith
- Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790)
- 4 Obstacles
- Absolutism, social order, mercantilism, French Catholic Church
- Watteau
- French painter (1684-1721) "Pilgrimage to Cythera"
- Volkschule
- a system of state-supported primary schoold in the Habsburg Austrian Empire.
- Fielding
- Wrote Tom Jones, English novelist/satirist
- Pogroms
- Jewish massacres that were used as emotional outlets
- Gibbon
- English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)
- Quesnay
- Leader of the Physiocrats who thought that land was the source of all wealth and supported laissez-faire economies.
- Realschule
- a school that offered modern languages, geography, and bookkeeping to prepare young boys for careers in business. (in Germany)