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  1. Historical Context for the Enlightenment
    1. Impact of the Scientific Revolution
    2. Concept of natural law
    3. Idea of social progress
  2. The Social Order and Natural Law
    1. Political theories of Hobbes and Locke
    2. Locke's influence on Montesquieu and Jefferson
    3. Smith and economic theory
  3. The Philosophes
    1. Role of the salon
    2. Diderot and the Encyclopédie
    3. Encyclopedic literature: dictionaries, biographies, and histories
    4. Concepts of social progress: Condorcet and Wollstonecraft
    5. Impact on literature
      1. the journalistic essay
      2. the novel
      3. the neoclassical poetry of Alexander Pope





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