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What is Enlightenment? History 104 / February 6, 2013

What is Enlightenment? History 104 / February 6, 2013. François Marie Arouet (1694-1778) a.k.a. Voltaire. Disseminating knowledge: Voltaire. Voltaire, Elements of the Philosophy of Newton (Amsterdam, 1738). Disseminating knowledge: the Encyclopédia. Denis Diderot (1713-1784).

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What is Enlightenment? History 104 / February 6, 2013

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  1. What is Enlightenment?History 104 / February 6, 2013

  2. François Marie Arouet(1694-1778) a.k.a. Voltaire

  3. Disseminating knowledge: Voltaire Voltaire, Elements of the Philosophy of Newton (Amsterdam, 1738)

  4. Disseminating knowledge: the Encyclopédia Denis Diderot (1713-1784)

  5. First volume of the Encyclopédia (1751) “Encyclopedia, or reasoned dictionary of the sciences, arts, and methods” “By a society of people of letters”

  6. 39 volumes of the original Encyclopédia – available from online booksellers!

  7. Examples of technical drawings from the Encyclopédia

  8. Baron de Montesqueiu(1689-1785)Persian Letters(1721)The Spirit of the Laws (1748)

  9. Adam Smith(1723-1790)The Wealth of Nations(1776)

  10. Jean-Marie de CondorcetThe Progress of the Human Mind(early 1790s)

  11. Jean-Jacques Rousseau(1712-1778)

  12. Rousseau, Émile orOn Education(Amsterdam, 1762)- the “noble savage”

  13. Rousseau, The Social Contract(Amsterdam, 1762)

  14. Voltaire, Candide(1759)Essay on Tolerance(1763)

  15. G. F. Lessing(1729-1781)Nathan the Wise (1779)

  16. The Baron d’HolbachThe System of Nature(1780)

  17. Immanuel Kant(1724-1804)The Critique of Pure Reason (1781)

  18. Initiation into a Masonic Lodge

  19. Masonic symbols

  20. Mary Wollstonecraft(1759-1797)A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1791)

  21. The Methodist revival:George Whitefield& John Wesley

  22. Moses Mendelssohn(1729-1786)

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