March 2 The
Enlightenment/ enlightenments
key terms: Kant, the republic of letters, deism, toleration, Mendelssohn, Diderot, the
Encyclopédie
I. What is Enlightenment?
SAPERE AUDE
the
Berlinische Monatsschrift
Gothold Lessing
(1729-1781)
Moses Mendelssohn
(1729-1786)
Immanuel Kant
(1724-1804)
reason
progress/ reform
freedom/ liberty
intellectual
history
Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of the Enlightenment
(1932)
Pater Gay, The Enlightenment, an
Interpretation (1966-69)
Vol. I The Rise of
Modern Paganism
Vol. II The
Science of Freedom
geography
the republic of
letters
chronology
society
religion
II. enlightenment and religion
deism
Treatise of the Three
Impostors (1719)
toleration
Voltaire and the
Calas affair (Toulouse, 1761)
Treatise on Tolerance
(1763)
Mendelssohn's
"Jerusalem: Or on Religous Power and Judaism (1783)
III.
gathering and diffusing knowledge
