History 111: The Enlightenment

Outline

Newton

Locke

Glorious Revolution

Britain as example

Montesquieu

Voltaire

Deists

Rousseau

Denis Diderot and the Encyclopédie

Names, Terms

Enlightenment | l’âge de lumière | Aufklärung | Illuminiso | Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) | John Locke (1632-1704) | tabula rasa | Glorious Revolution (1688-9) | Act for the Regulation of Printing | Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) | François Marie Arouet "Voltaire" (1694-1778) | Jean Calas | Candide | Frederick II ("The Great" 1712-1786) | Écrasez l’infâme!" | Huguenots | philosophes | Deists | Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) | Encyclopédie | Denis Diderot (1713-1784)