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Enlightening religion |
deism |
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Thomas Paine argues that he believes in god but |
no particular religion (deism) |
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(Paine)church/religion believed to be |
human invention that terrorizes+enslaves mankind, monopolizes power+profit |
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(Voltaire (??))Enlightening politics: no comparison between crimes of great mean who are ambitious&want power and |
people as a whole who want liberty & equality |
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Enlightening politics: man cannot be free until the last king |
is strangled in the last priest's entrails --angry at institutions that have kept them in the dark (prevent from learning & reason) --the only legit rule comes from people, not divine --kings should serve ppl, not the other way around |
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Enlightening Tradition: nothing should be excepted just because it's |
tradition (all customs, habits should be tested) |
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Enlightening tradition: measuring systems replaced |
with metric system |
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Enlightening tradition: people should be |
questioning, curious, wondering |
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Watchwords of the enlightenment |
* progress
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Utility |
measure based on how useful (education) --measure reform based on utility |
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education |
for everyone, optimism |
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legislation |
use government to spread enlightenment --public education ==spend public money ==better for everyone |
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Social Impact |
* art (portraits for mid class families)
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Intellectual Life: Parisian salons |
* the encyclopedia
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Social and political criticism: What did Montesquieu write? |
the persian letters--novel that satirizes tyranny |
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Social and political criticism: Condorcet and progress |
math, philos. polit sci universal public education women's suffrage abolition of slavery opposed death penalty |
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Kant (What is Enlightenment): human civilization matures through stages much like |
an individual grows from infancy to old age |
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Kant our current civ has been stuck for centuries in an |
immature state |
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Kant enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred |
tutelage |
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Tutelage |
protection of or authority over someone or something; guardianship.
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Civilization makes it possible for people to think for themselves but |
most people are still too lazy and cowardly to do it |
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We don't live in an enlightened age but |
an age of enlightenment |
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The motto of enlightenment is have the courage to use your own |
reason |
