SOAN 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Catharine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, Montesquieu
10 Dec 2016
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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. Introduction and background: keeping freedom and belief. The enlightenment: philosophical foundations reforms in education, medicine movements to abolish slavery the neoclassical and romantic movements in art there was still intellectual repression: censorship, book burning . European 18th century was a time of colonial expansion and development. Because the physical world was dominated by natural laws it was likely that the social world was too . Institutions are made for men" rather than men" for institutions. Progress is the central law of society superstition. Campaigning for basic freedoms intellectuals of the enlightenment operated largely outside the universities primarily from the upper- middle-class . Sought to destroy the old regime all would be equal before the law .
