Jessica Harris Enlightenment Thoughts and Events Ideas of the Enlightenment · Wollstonecraft Vindiction of Women’s Rights · Astell: -equality among husband and wife -Women’s education · Descartes -“I think, therefore I am” · Bacon -Scientific Method · “Science of Man” · Reason · Hermeticism · Spinoza -Ethics Demonstrated in the Geometrical Manner · Locke -Tabula Rasa - blank mind Government and Rights · Laissez-Faire · Bayle -History and Critical Dictionary · Montesquieu – republics, monarchy, despotism -Spirit of Laws - Checks and balances · Voltaire -Candide -Treatise on Toleration · Smith -Wealth of Nations -government should provide: army, police, and public works
Enlightenment Thoughts and Events
Ideas of the Enlightenment
· Wollstonecraft Vindiction of Women’s Rights
· Astell:
-equality among husband and wife
-Women’s education
· Descartes
-“I think, therefore I am”
· Bacon
-Scientific Method
· “Science of Man”
· Reason
· Hermeticism
· Spinoza
-Ethics Demonstrated in the Geometrical Manner
· Locke
-Tabula Rasa - blank mind
Government and Rights
· Laissez-Faire
· Bayle
-History and Critical Dictionary
· Montesquieu – republics, monarchy, despotism
-Spirit of Laws
- Checks and balances
· Voltaire
-Candide
-Treatise on Toleration
· Smith
-Wealth of Nations
-government should provide: army, police, and public works