HSTR 240A Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Émilie Du Châtelet, Immanuel Kant, Enlightened Absolutism
14 Nov 2016
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Death of louis xiv and the beginning of the french revolution. Some people believe that it was beginning around the 1620"s. Discovering the world and making it better with improvement with progress to be found; moving forward to something new. Moving away from the idealized past and moving towards a more improved future. Transformative moments where people were looking at the world in a new way. Immanuel kant: taking the gamble and knowing the world and acting upon this knowledge, risking knowledge with the idea that things will get better. John locke: english philosopher and physician, linked scientific revolution to enlightenment, m p. 314-316, earliest forerunners of the enlightenment and later scientific revolution. Voltaire (1694-1778: poster boy of the enlightenment, francois-marie arouet. Loved england with their more constitutional government, more tenancy to the. How great everything is in great britain. Very negative views of the (catholic church) Very rare that she could understand the concepts to translate.
