HTST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Tabula Rasa, Flash Pasteurization, Age Of Enlightenment
9 Dec 2020
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European enlightenment: attainment of knowledge and understanding without being influenced by dogma, tradition, o irrational thinking, newton, principles of mathematics (1687); universe governed by natural laws that human reason could discover. Locke, concerning human understanding & letter concerning toleration (1690: humans born as tabula rasa (empty slate, all human had equal ability to reason and learn, all religion should be tolerated if it is moral. French philsophes, 1720-80: wrote letters, essays, critiques, novels, and satires showing absurdity of exisiting ideas and practices, emphasized reason, progress, nature, liberty, works censured but widely disturbed throughout europe via printing press. Francois marie arouet: voltarie, arovet li, the spirit of the enlightenment, wrote 20,000 letters and 2,000 books, canadide 1759 and letters on the english 1778. Jean-jacques rousseau: discourse on equality 1754, criticized nobility, law, religion, social contract 1762, believes in lockaen contract theory of government.
