Definitions
A series of debates about key issues in late-seventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe and the wider world.
What is Enlightenment?
A huguenot who criticized political and religious beliefs
Who is Pierre Bayle?
Aimed to renew the church, looking to the divine.
What was the Catholic Enlightenment?
A secular, critical way of thinking.
What is Rationalism?
A Jewish Philosopher who was inspired by advances in science and wanted to apply philosophy to human society.
Who is Baruch Spinoza?
Centered in Edinburgh, marked by and emphasis on common sense and scientific reasoning
What is the Scottish Enlightenment?
The idea that all human ideas and thoughts are produced as a result of sensory impressions.
What is sensationalism?
Wrote the Spirit of Laws in sight of understanding issues with the government, and later identified main types of government and how they were established by history.
Who is the baron de Montesquieu
Revolved around idealism, and the idea that objects had no independent existence outside of peoples consciousness of them.
What is the German Enlightenment?
Belief in a noninterventionist deity.
What is deism?
Was arrested twice for insulting noblemen, before moving to share his philosophical ideas on English liberties.
Who is Voltaire?
Arguments on ethics and justice systems are prominent.
What is the Enlightenment in Italy?
A group of French intellectuals who claimed they were bringing the light of knowledge to their fellow humans.
What are philosophes
A gifted noblewoman who was interested in sciences, and ultimately published Newtons Principia into French.
Who is Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Chatelet
Religion was a key idea in Enlightenment and helped shape how people created new viewpoints
Enlightenment in Europe