THE ENLIGHTENMENTAP EUROPEAN HISTORY @ CAPITAL HIGH SCHOOL

THE PHILOSOPHES

VOLTAIRE

1694-1778

“CRUSH THE INFAMOUS THING!”

CANDIDE

BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

1689-1775, FRANCE

SPIRIT OF LAWS (1748)

CHECKS AND BALANCES

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

1712-1778, FRANCE

THE SOCIAL CONTRACT (1762)

EMILE (1762)

DENIS DIDEROT

1713-1784, FRANCE

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA

MARQUIS DI BECCARIA

1738-1794, ITALY

ON CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT (1764)

THE ENLIGHTENMENT EXAMINES ECONOMICS...

FRANCOIS QUESNAY

1694-1774, FRANCE

PHYSIOCRATS

ADAM SMITH

1727-1790, ENGLISH

THE WEALTH OF NATIONS (1776)

WOMEN IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT

THE SALON MOVEMENT

MARY WOLLESTONECRAFT

ENGLAND

THE ENLIGHTENED DESPOTS:THE ENLIGHTENMENT APPLIED TO POLITICS

A DEBATE...

THE ENLIGHTENMENT CREATED:GREAT REFORMS?

OR

MODEST REFORMS?

IN PLACES WHERE THERE WASN’T A REVOLUTION...

MODEST REFORMS:

RELIGIOUS TOLERATION

STREAMLINED LEGAL CODES

INCREASED ACCESS TO EDUCATION

REDUCTION OF TORTURE AND THE DEATH PENALTY

FREDERIC II:(FREDERIC THE GREAT!)

WAR OF AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION

SEVEN YEARS’ WAR

DIPLOMATIC REVOLUTION

“FIRST SERVANT OF THE STATE”

CATHERINE THE GREAT

PUGACHEV REBELLION

PARTITION OF POLAND

MARIA THERESA

...NOT AN “ENLIGHTENED DESPOT?”

JOSEPH II

MAJOR REFORMER