HIST 386 Final - Enlightenment People

Voltaire

lettres philosophiques. Jesuit newspaper calls him a philosophe

Abbe Allanard

Persees antia philosophiques - an apologia

Abbe Gillarme-Thomas Daynal

wrote book on the immorality of slavery

John Locke

coined sensationalism, two treatises

Linguet

French lawyer who defended royal authority, thrown in Bastille

Cesare Beccaria

father of criminology

Diderot and d’Alembert

editors of the Encyclopedie

Emmanuel Kant

“What is Enlightenment?” think for yourself

Rene Descartes

“I think therefore I am” innate ideas

David Hume

Scottish presbyterian, skepticism. Math is the only thing that proves truth

Baron d’Holbach

Swiss born, naturalized French citizen, determinism (everything is pre-programed)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(crazy) emotions are critical, not reason. We need to be honest that we are dishonest. Memoir, “Confessions”