HY 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pierre Bayle, Denis Diderot, Montesquieu
29 Aug 2016
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Publishing movement about living, human principals working into society. A newtonian way of thinking about the world: popularizing science: de fontanelle. Writes a book about astronomy in century before. Translates complex science to average reader understand (bill neil the. The world can be improved: skepticism, cultural relativism, and the new world. Maybe the way we do things, isn"t the only way. Goes to holland, arrested his family for it. Writes historical and critical dictionary: everyone lies and everyone is. Tremendous influence on david hume (art skeptic) Cultural skepticism maybe my way isn"t the only way: the early french enlightenment, montesquieu and government. Mary montesquieu writes letter about travels and seeing everything new and why they do that (outsiders perspective) Baron montesquieu in 1719 writes book the persian (something) opposite of what mary montesquieu is doing. Also suggests that if you want freedom to the public (urban, educated.
