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The Humanistic Tradition, 4/e
Gloria K. Fiero
The Promise of Reason

Chapter Outline

  1. Historical Context for the Enlightenment
    1. the impact of the Scientific Revolution
    2. the growing middle class
    3. rising literacy
  2. The Social Order and Natural Law
    1. the concept of natural law
    2. political theories of Hobbes and Locke
    3. Locke's influence on Montesquieu and Jefferson
    4. Smith and economic theory
  3. The Philosophes
    1. the role of the salon
    2. Diderot and the Encyclopédie
    3. encyclopedic literature
    4. concepts of social progress: Condorcet and Wollstonecraft
    5. impact on literature
      1. the journalistic essay
      2. the novel
      3. the poetry of Alexander Pope








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