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THE ENLIGHTENMENT: THE CULTURE OF OPTIMISM
Characteristics of enlightenment
European Modern Age
scientific and intellectual advances
not accepted by everybody
new intellectual movement appeared
Enlightenment
thinkers were
optimistic intellectual movement
Progress
development of knowledge
civilisation could control
nature
create
well-being
wealth
Happiness
individual right and a societal aspiration
Reason
understood as humas rationality
The evolution of the enlightenment
reformist movement
defended
most Enlightenment thinkers
monarchists
education and pedagogy
thinkers supported extending education
Enlightenment led
different scientific and technical innovations
development of the Enlightenment
caused the Church and absolutism
lose part of their influence
improvements
literacy
notably in Prussia
Enlightenment thinkers
insufficient to achieve the triumph of
progress
happiness
reason
more radical critique of the political and social system
Spread of enlightenment ideas
Encyclopédie
Diderot and D’Alembert
newspapers were published daily
Reading societies
first public libraries
Enlightenment ideas
spread
word of mouth in gatherings
academies
lectures were given
Women in the enlightenment
women
experienced inequality and subordination
protested about women’s social situation
Women englightenment
MARÍA GAETANA AGNESI (1718–1799)
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT (1759–1797)
ÉMILIE DU CHÂTELET (1706–1749)
SALONS: MARIE-THÉRÈSE RODET
Enlightenment promoted
exchange of ideas
attended the literary salons
of Paris
became famous
starting her own salon
SCIENCE, LITERATURE AND ART
more women began to work
professions previously
women made
important scientific
cultural contributions
