Carol’s Reviews > Age of Enlightment > Status Update

P 168 age of enlightenment became the age of Revolution and war.

p147 Kant’s philosophical version of the Golden rule- man held an “intuitive standard which prompted him to act as he thought other men should act”

P 144 Lessing’s view of King David

P 141 Goethe German writer

p122 Bach wrote religious music while Handel focused on secular works.
Haydn, Mozart, Gluck.

P 101 Science of Man by David Hume.
Specialized studies of the sciences emerged.

p87 Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. He was anti-Christian and put the collapse on the barbarism of Germanic invaders and Christianity.

Tom Jones about the reality of human nature, good and bad.

p 81-new reading form-the novel!

p 79 Adam Smirh-Wealth of Nations;
Charles Duclos-French essayist;
Benevolence towards man;
Literacy!