HIST285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: French Revolution, Age Of Enlightenment, Meritocracy
16 Oct 2017
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234: god chose to lavish on these infidels so many good things why: many other favorable comparison in our readings. Europeans fans of china (1: sources of information jesuits, gottfried wilhelm von leibniz (1646 1716, novisimma sinica, 1697. Part of the german enlightenment: ventures into theology, reason!!! Be scientific about human affairs: rational, reason, objective, european: newton and leibniz, especially newton as models, leibniz polymathematician. Came up with calculus: christian wolff, 1721, not really part of the enlightenment but a figure like newton who inspires the project of the enlightenment. In a lecture, praises the philosophical practice of the chinese, saying they were rational. Can have morality with traditional christianity: liberal democracy, declaration of human rights during the french revolution first worldwide declaration, chinese: enlightened despot , the french and scottish enlightenment, voltaire, diderot, smith, others. Scottish enlightenment: david humes: accused of being atheists, said they were christians but were.
