Enlightenment and Revolution

Enlightenment

Enlightenment Themes

0Reason0Scientific method0Progress0Scepticism

0 Rene Descartes (1596-1650)0 David Hume (1711-1776)

Scientific Method

John Locke (1632-1704)Two Treatises on Government

Charles-Louis de Secondat (Montesquieu) (1689-1755)Spirit of the Laws (1748)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)The Social Contract (1762)

Broadening Discussions

0Transnational “Republic of Letters”0 Academies0 Salons

0 Increasing literacy0 Cheap books0 Academic journals0 Bookstores0 cafés

Café Procope

Enlightenment Equality?