HISTORY 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Renaissance Humanism, Scientific Revolution, Age Of Enlightenment
7 Jun 2017
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Age of intellectual inquiry, focused upon social, economic and political change. Influences: renaissance humanism, scientific revolution, religious division, intolerance (reformation, absolutism and constitutionalism. John locke (1632-1704: essay concerning human understanding; two treatises of government, involved of monarchy he was a revolutionary, involved in establishing constitutional monarchy in england, change in the nature of governance. Key points: human nature = tabula rasa , society = human construct, ignorance = bad governance. Moralists: how to make society better; progress . Baron de montesquieu (1755): the persian letters; the spirit of the laws (1748) Unusual had a university degree and member of sword mobility. Married a protestant it was illegal to be protestant. The persian letters made his name, most famous work: satirical letters nature of european life. Spirit of the laws most famous political work. Looking for rational principles governing the formation of society. Believed human nature had an innocence that was corrupted by the church.
