I. The Glorification of Reason
     Locke and Newton
     The Philosophes  

     Montesquieu   and political thought
          proposed separation of powers
          saw need to protect liberty from corrupt rulers
II.   Voltaire   ( 1694-1778)
    A.  His Life
    B.  Letters on the English
         opposed intolerance, fought for reason & limited government
         view of religion
   C.  Candide
III.   Diderot and The Encyclopedie  
IV.
     A.   Adam Smith  

     B.  Thomas Paine   and the Age of Reason
     C.  Rousseau  

        The Social Contract   1762
         believed the will of the majority should prevail
         believed those in civilized societies were unhappy, selfish
         those living in harmony with nature were happy --  "the noble savage"
   D. Mary Astell
       The Women's Question: Status of Women  

   E. Mary Wollstonecraft    --  Vindication of the Rights of Women
   
V.  Social and Political Reform in the Enlightenment
     A.  The Social Environment of the Philosophes
VI. Culture and Society
      A.  The Development of the Novel
          Samuel Richardson,
          Henry Fielding
     B. popular magazines / daily newspapers
         Spectator
     C. Education and Universities
     D. Crime and Punishment Beccaria   (1738 - 1794)
     E. Popular Culture
     F.  Deism
      The Best of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
         the influence of Christianity