PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Antireligion, Liberal Democracy, Anti-Clericalism
28 Jul 2020
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French thought has decisively determined the spirit of the european enlightenment, due to the publication and dissemination of the encyclop die de diderot et d"alembert from 1751. French enlightenment is known to be anti-clerical, anti-religious and even atheistic, because of its untiring controversy with the catholic church and the ancien r gime (the old regime of the. Although it had a strong critical and destructive tendency, nevertheless the. French enlightenment developed concepts that were extremely important for modern life, such as human rights. The visible fruit of these efforts was the french revolution of 1791, which definitively ended the ancien r gime. The philosophers undertook an attempt to enlarge the world and man in his psychic, moral and. 1 social life, without metaphysical and theological presuppositions; they then developed hume"s ideal of a science of man, based on autonomous experience and reason. The enlightened french philosophers were strongly influenced by the movements in england, especially newton and.
