Enlightenment Spreads

Education
1. Denis Diderot - Encyclopedia (17 volumes)
  1. if you give knowledge to people, they can think on their own
  2. attacked religious intolerance + absolute gov't
2. teach people to think critically + objectively on everything
Women's Rights
1. Mary Astell
  1. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
  2. criticize inequality b/w men and women in marriage
    1. compare to monarch's power over people
  3. women's education
2. Mary Wollstonecraft
  1. A Vindication of the Rights of Women
  2. contradictions in enlightenment thinkers vs. women's rights
  3. equal rights - education, politics, economics
3. Emilie du Chatelet
  1. mathematician + physicist
  2. translated Newton into French
Culture/Arts
1. Baroque
  1. popular before Enlightenment
  2. grand, ornate, exaggeration
  3. drama, detailed, contrast
  4. absolutism - showing off power
  5. Bach, Vivaldi
2. Neoclassical
  1. simple, elegant
  2. symmetry, geometry
  3. beauty while quiet
  4. order + balance
  5. Greek/Roman themes
  6. rational thinkers
  7. Mozart, Haydn
  8. popular during Enlightenment
Economic
1. Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations
2. nature should be left alone to work (economics)
  1. supply and demand
  2. laissez-faire: no gov't regulation of economy
  3. individuals left alone to pursue their economic interests
Religion (deism)
1. question established religion - can't prove
2. religion exists, but within laws of nature
  1. God created perfect universe; doesn't need to play active role
3. God = clockmaker
Monarchy

Next up

Enlightenment Spreads

Description

Resource summary

Similar

	Created by tamanna.sohal over 10 years ago