European Enlightenment
Enlightenment projects
Diderot's Enccylopedie
Enlightenment thinkers
Diderot
- author, editor of l'Encyclopedie
- self-exiled to Switzerland to carry on the project in secret
Hume
- the problem of induction
- how do you know that the sun will rise tomorrow?
- Greek verwion of hte question >>> todo
- reason will always be the slave of passion
- in 2020 Hume cancelled by modern "cancel culture"
- Hume wrote a racist tract, "comments on matters of race" that posited that blacks were inferior beings
- in 2020, Edinburgh University removed his name from a building on campus