Status Updates From Age of Enlightenment

P 168 age of enlightenment became the age of Revolution and war.

p147 Kant’s philosophical version of the Golden rule- man held an “intuitive standard which prompted him to act as he thought other men should act”

P 144 Lessing’s view of King David

P 141 Goethe German writer

p122 Bach wrote religious music while Handel focused on secular works.
Haydn, Mozart, Gluck.

P 101 Science of Man by David Hume.
Specialized studies of the sciences emerged.

p87 Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. He was anti-Christian and put the collapse on the barbarism of Germanic invaders and Christianity.

Tom Jones about the reality of human nature, good and bad.

p 81-new reading form-the novel!

p 79 Adam Smirh-Wealth of Nations;
Charles Duclos-French essayist;
Benevolence towards man;
Literacy!

p 78 Henry Fielding novelist.
p 78-79 Industrial Revolution-0 child labour

p77 definition of 1770’s sentimentality

p65-75 For all the praise of being intellectual, Charlatans were believed.

p63 Rousseau

p 61-62 Voltaire thought of the Quakers were thought of an ideal- “simple and honest, hardy but not primitive” but he never knew one.
Other cultures were praised at this time like the Chinese.

p37 2 types of Epicureans-those that pursued serenity, the absence of pain and disturbances then those that took their beliefs as a licence to overindulge to the extreme.

There is an excellent chart of the different beliefs of this era on page 36.

p 34-the French Jesuits were “conversant in [this] new rationalism” and were “cosmopolitan clerics”. Their sermons ignored hell and condemnation instead xtolling man’s “excellent Christian conduct”.

p 32 Latitudinarians, such as John Locke, used reason not emotionalism in understanding Scripture but it tended towards just a general good will to others rather rather than a real faith. Their point of view concluded that the rich used reason while the poor used emotionalism.

p 20 Newtonian thought did not concern itself with first causes but with the effects.

p 20 in Voltaire’s words, Newton did not put “his fancies in place of truth”.

p 19 Newton’s greatest contribution is the scientific principle-inquire, experiment then hypothesize

Hostil to organized Christianity

without politics or religion

p11 Kant’s definition -enlightenment “Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!”