The Enlightenment 18

Post by **Martin Hash** » Tue Nov 02, 2021 8:21 am

Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’ (1717 – 1783): co-editor of the Encyclopédie,
Beccaria, Cesare (1738 - 1794): punishment to be secular rather than based on sin.
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc (1707 – 1788): rejected the biblical chronology
Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat (1743 – 1794): promoted education and freedom for enslaved people
Diderot, Denis (1713 – 1784): co-editor of the Encyclopédie,
Gibbon, Edward (1737 – 1794): author of the most famous work of history in the English language, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Herder, Johann Gottfried von (1744 – 1803): literary criticism
Holbach, Paul-Henri Thiry (1723 – 1789): attacked organized religion
Hume, David (1711 – 1776): author of Treatise of Human Nature
Kant, Immanuel (1724 – 1804): wrote the era-defining essay What is Enlightenment?
Locke, John (1632 – 1704): produced views on government
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis Secondat (1689 – 1755): examination of different forms of government
Newton, Isaac (1642 – 1727): forge a new model for science
Quesnay, François (1694 – 1774): economic works
Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas (1713 - 1796): “mouthpiece” of Enlightenment ideas and thought
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712 – 1778): major influence during the French Revolution
Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques (1727 – 1781): commitment to free trade
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet (1694 – 1778): dominant Enlightenment figures, and his death is sometimes cited as the end of the period.