Enlightenment 2

Enlightenment 2: 

 

1. Rousseau. The Social Contract. 

2. Government as a “necessary evil” (Rousseau).

3. Rousseau’s ideas about women. 

4. Kant and the difference between science and morality. 

5. Montesquieu. The 3 branches of government. 

6. Beccaria’s ideas about punishment. New concepts.

7. Adam Smith. The Wealth of Nations. Against the State's intervention. 

8. The Encyclopedia and the institution of monarchy. 

9. Mary Wollstonecraft.