SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Age Of Enlightenment, Jean-Antoine Watteau, The Burning Times
2 Mar 2013
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Montesquieu: introduction and background, social science spirit of laws, montesquieu"s classification of society: republic, monarchy, despotism, nature and types, social phenomena laws cause/effect, conclusions and critique. Voltaire: introduction and background, keeping freedom and belief. European 18th century was a very important time in terms of colonial expansion and development. Peasants suffered severe poverty and powerlessness legal disabilities of women; exclusions from education: any women with money could get education very few women the century ended with the french revolution. Because the physical world was dominated by natural laws it was likely that the social world was too. Many philosophers disagreed about how the world is and should be. Philosophers inspired by john locke and newton: they had to also be skeptical of inherited truths" they had to have a reason age of reason" create a more rational world with reason. Variations in human nature climate, accidents, etc. Institutions made for men rather than humans.
