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THE ENLIGHTENMENT (Characters (Voltaire (Famous novel was Candide (poked…

- - - - Published his "Principia Mathematica" in 1686
    - - Published his "Essay on Human Understanding" in 1689
      - Believed the purpose of Government was to protect people natural rights.
      - Idea
        
        The true basis of government was a social contract between people and their government.
  - - - described how governments should be organized
    - - The separation of powers
        
        By dividing different powers among more than one branch of government, no one grupo in the government could grow to powerful.
  - - - poked fun at old religious ideas
    - - He had a strong belief in religious tolerance and free speech.
- - - - Culmination of the vision of the High Enlightenment to expel the old authorities to remake society along rational lines.
        
        This turned into bloody terror that showed the limits of his own ideas
        
        Napoleón
        
        The first feminist Mary Wollstonecraft
        
        Haiti's war of independence as the radical racial inclusivism of Paraguay's first post-independence government.
- - - - Also call the Age of Reason
    - - Elightenment thinking challenged accepted beliefs.
      - Want to use the ideas of the Scientific Revolution for problems and reasons of government and society.
    - - The Enlightenment finally turned to romanticism in the 19th century.
    - - The Early Enlightenment: 1685-1730
      - The last illumination and beyond: 1780-1815