European Enlightenment

From A+ Club Lesson Planner & Study Guide
Revision as of 12:52, 9 July 2021 by Bromley (talk | contribs) (starting article)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)


Enlightenment projects[edit | edit source]

Diderot's Enccylopedie[edit | edit source]

Enlightenment thinkers[edit | edit source]

Diderot[edit | edit source]

  • author, editor of l'Encyclopedie
  • self-exiled to Switzerland to carry on the project in secret

Hume[edit | edit source]

  • 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

Voltaire[edit | edit source]

Retrieved from "https://school4schools.wiki/w/index.php?title=European_Enlightenment&oldid=1709"