ENLIGHTENMENT

1. Causes

1.1. Philosophes and the use of reason

1.2. Scientific Revolution

2. Effects

2.1. Creation of Natural Laws

2.2. More progress and more hope

2.3. The spark of the American and French Revolutions.

2.4. Three Branches of Government

3. Isaac Newton

3.1. "World Machine": Natural Laws

4. Important Dates

4.1. 1651: Thomas Hobbes wrote: "The Leviathan"

4.2. 1686.-Isaac Newton publishes the Principia Mathematica

4.3. 1690: John Locke "Two Treaties of Government"

4.4. 1702: First daily newspaper in London

4.4.1. newspaper was cheap in coffe houses

4.5. 1751: The Encyclopedia was written

4.6. 1776: Adam Smith: "Wealth of Nations"

4.7. 1789.- Beginning of the French Revolution

5. Character Participation

5.1. Main influences

5.1.1. John Locke

5.1.1.1. "Tabula Rasa": Blank mind

5.2. Philosophes

5.2.1. Montesquieu: Separation of powers

5.2.2. Voltaire: Deism

5.2.3. Diderot: Encyclopedia

5.2.4. Rousseau: "Social Contract"