The Enlightenment

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Time

  • Late 17th century to early 19th century

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Main ideas

Main ideas

  • Reason

  • Secularism

  • Humanism

  • Republicanism

  • Individualism

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Philosophers evidence

  • Philosophers wanted to change society → truth through reason (rationalism)

  • Published criticisms in ‘The Encyclopedie’ (75000 articles and illustrations)

  • Published seventeen fifty one

Subjects

  • Philosophy

  • Politics

  • Economics

  • Religion

  • Music

  • Biology

  • Physics

Targeted Catholic Church → all knowledge doesn't come supernaturally from god (Secularism)

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Evidence - Books

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Published ‘A Social Contract’ in 1762

  • Argued for a republic government (Republicanism)

  • Separate from the church (Secularism)