HIST 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anagram, Snob, Jean Calas
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The enlightenment was originally an 18th century german phenomenon: notion of auftklarun (enlightenment, emanuel kant defines the enlightenment as sapere audel (dare to know) The french also spoke of intellectuals being enlightened more elitist idea: british were not comfortable with the french and german notions. Some historians distinguish between the early enlightenment and the high. Enlightenment : many of the ideas about religion, progress, and liberalism are found in the 16th and 17th centuries, but do not become mainstream" until the enlightenment. The rise of modern atheism characterizes the enlightenment: thomas aikenhead, david hume, adam smith, paul-henry thriy, baron of d"holbach, and edward gibbon, a challenge to orthodox religion, and the first challenge to religious doctrine. Church, mistreats people: jean calas accused of murdering his son to prevent him from converting to catholicism (son actually commited suicide, voltaire tried to defend calas, but failed and calas was sentenced to death on the wheel.
