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4. Period of Enlightenment 4.1 Enlightenment Thought 4.2 Enlightened Despotism 4.3 Partition of Poland 4.1 Enlightenment Thought Enlightenment Catechism 1) Methods of Natural Science Development of Social Science 2) Belief in Reason

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4. Period of Enlightenment

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4.1 Enlightenment Thought 4.2 Enlightened Despotism 4.3 Partition of Poland

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4.1 Enlightenment Thought

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Enlightenment Catechism

1) Methods of Natural Science à Development of Social Science 2) Belief in Reason 3) Belief in Progress (Optimistic)

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What is a Philosophe? “One who, trampling on prejudice, tradition, universal consent, authority – in a word, all that enslaves most minds – dares to think for himself, to go back and search for the clearest general principles, to admit nothing except on the testimony of his experience and his reason.” - The Encyclopédie

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Deism David Hume

Natural History of

Religion (1775) Voltaire

Candide (1759)
Treatise on Toleration

(1763)

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4.2 Enlightened Despotism

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“Enlightened Despots” Frederick the Great (Prussia) Catherine the Great (Russia) Joseph II (Austria)

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4.3 Partition of Poland

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