HIST 1000 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Christianity, Voltaire, Torture
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Enlightenment: introduction a/- 18th century movement to change men"s minds and reform institutions; one of the most important intellectual movements in western history. b/--mottos: Have the courage to make use of your understanding see box. -diderot: we are promoting a rev in men"s minds to free them of prejudice c/begins in paris in the early 18th century. Until the late 17th century, literature and writing based at versailles under louis 14: -but the regime ends as a mess: 1685 revocation of the edict of nantes; persecution of the. Jansenists; losses of war; famine; the result is that intellectual life shifts to paris as writers lose faith in louis 14. He dies in 1715, the year voltaire is 21. d/ the enlightenment radiates from paris and comes to include about 250 men an women of letters over the next three generations. They are called philosophes, although only a few are philosophers (hume, kant).
