enlightenment part 1
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- rousseau
- social contract-est. by general will which is emotional;wrote "on the origins of human inequality"-private property is origin of social classes;wrote "emilie"- education, women ininferior, domestic shere, natural setting
- salon
- living room place in paris where philosophes met; in and out crowd;run by women
- locke
- tabula rosa;we know what we know based on our own experiances, Essay Concerning Understanding
- adam smith
- wrote "wealth of nations";creator of modern capitalism;natural order of the market place-invisible hand;law of supply and demand-natural price;law of competition-competition controls industry that i demanded
- newton
- natural laws;world machine;gravity
- diderot
- wrote "encyclopedia";gathering of all good works of philosophes;guves u flavor of the age, widly published
- physiocrats
- quesnay, laissez-faire;land;moral foundation-self-intrest
- james cook
- wrote "travels" which included tahitit and showed peopl what they wanted to see; travel literature, noble savage
- voltaire
- history, religious toleration, opposed fanacticism, and emtions, enlightened despotism;brilliant;supported all natural rights;definately a Deist, Treatise on tolerartion, "crush the infamous thing," Philosophic letter on the English
- bayle
- created historical and critical dictionary and pulled out david; attacked bible stories; religious skeptism
- hume
- definetaly deist;wrote "treatise on human nature";believed that science of man was possible,applied reason to broad subjects
- condorcet
- believed that we were entering stage 10(perfection/utopia);utopian enthusiasm;wrote "progress of the human mind," optomist
- holbach
- aetheism;no emotions;materialism-only molecules, no thinking or soul;wrote the "system of nature"
- philosophes
- to enlightment as humanist is to rennaissance;goal was to remove christianity from society, thinker of enlightenment
- montesquie
- seperation of powers;exectutive, legislative, and judicial, Spirit of the Laws
- Fontelle
- created a novel love story in which he got science into pop culture, Plurality of Worlds