German Enlightenment

Music rococo

lighter more ornament and homophonic textures shifting

Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia

composer, flautist, violinist

Friedrich II

enlightened absolutism kinds as the first servant of the state

age of enlightenment

abolition of torture, investment in education, science and the arts

REASON

Rise of the sciences, technology development, signing the declaration of independence

Lynn Hunt (* 1945): Inventing
Human Rights: A History (2007)

The emergence of the idea of
human rights in the context of
the Enlightenment and the
abolition of torture

Code civil

a comprehensive civil law code established in france, aimed at unifying and strandardizing legal principle across france

Immanual Kant

one of the central enlightenment thinkers, he worked on writing on metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics that were influenntial and controversial in modern western philosphy.

Kants three critiques

• critique of pure reason

• critique of practical reason

• critique of judgement

Greek philosphy

distinct between logic, physics and ethics