HIS101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Immanuel Kant, Enlightened Absolutism, Philosophes
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Parisian salons setting the example: elite women exerted influence on salon culture and on artistic taste in general. Late enlightenment: after 1770, a number of thinkers and writers began to attack the enlightenment"s faith in reason, progress, and moderation. Jean-jacques rousseau (1712 1778) was devoted to individual freedom, but saw rationalism and civilization as enemies. He believed in a division of gender roles. o: the social contract (1762) made an important contribution to political theory. Immanuel kant (1724 1804) argued that serious thinkers should be granted the o freedom to exercise their reason publicly in print. Race and the enlightenment: thinkers developed new and highly influential ideas about racial difference. A primary catalyst for new ideas about race was the urge to classify nature. Race began to be used in similar way to species. : thinkers such as hume and kant helped popularize new ideas about race, these ideas did not go unchallenged. o.
