HIST 220 Lecture Notes - Isaac Newton, Treaties Of The European Union, Philosophes
Document Summary
New social history: transformation of the public sphere. Approach is economic and social changes produce new ideas. French case: marxist historians consider the enlightenment to be the rising of the bourgeousie. New soci-ability outside of the direct view of the state new civil society was responsible for the spread of the ideas of the enlightenment. Laws of the natural world and motion were useful became popular and influential. These laws were not obvious, laws were discoverable. Increased sense of confidence in the possibility of humans to understand the universe. Growing sense of optimism that people could in fact learn to understand the workings of nature. Laws of the human world (social science) If you can change and improve society, you can improve man. In 1690, locke published the two treaties in government. Government was a contract between ruler and rule. Agreement in which the ruler agrees to take responsibility for life, liberty and property.
