1. Enlightenment
Rational
Common Sense
Freedom
Happiness on Earth

2. R ENLIGHTENMENT (forget fatalism) EASON ("prove it")
ELIGION (anti-Establishment)
EFORM (perfectibility
of society)
EVOLUTION (for the people)

3. Baruch Spinoza
What do Baruch Spinoza and Madonna have in common?

4. Newton

5. Locke

6. Philosophes

7. Deism

8. Beccaria

9. Montesqieu

10. Physiocrats

11. Adam Smith

12. Voltaire

13. Hume
Science of Human nature
Skepticism- Rely on your senses?

14. Rousseau

15. Salons Primarily in France Ideas were also discussed
Freemasonry lodges
Royal Academies
Through Private Exchanges

16. Mary Wollstonecraft

17. Moses Mendelssohn

18. Enlightened Absolutists

19. Joseph II- Austria MONARCH ENLIGHTENED ACTIONS UNENLIGHTENED ACTIONS

20. Catherine the Great ENLIGHTENED ACTIONS UNENLIGHTENED ACTIONS

21. Frederick II ENLIGHTENED ACTIONS UNENLIGHTENED ACTIONS
“First Servant of the State”
ENLIGHTENED ACTIONS
UNENLIGHTENED ACTIONS
FREDERICK THE GREAT

22. Poland

23. IMPACT OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
POLITICAL
ECONOMIC
RELIGIOUS
SOCIAL
INTELLECTUAL
ARTISTIC
MILITARY
Drive to Democracy
(Enlightened Despots to Democracy)
Laissez Faire Capitalism
Deism
--Education
--Crime (reform)
--law (equality)
Secularization
Neoclassical
Reject past practices: offensive
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