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My resources for the Enlightenment go here:
My resources for the Enlightenment go here:


[[First Enlightenment Resource]]
[[First Enlightenment Resource: The Encyclopedists as a Group]]


[[Second Enlightenment Resource: Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatti, from the online Encyclopaedia Britannica]]


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[[Third Enlightenment Resource: The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment]]
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[[This Neoclassic masterpiece by Jacques-Louis David exemplifies many of the ideals of the Enlightenment. The frozen quality and clear, precise lines of the painting are show the Enlightenment's stress on rationality, clear thinking, and logic. The stoicism of the men also points to how Enlightenment thinkers generally believed in separating the emotional and sentimental from everyday life.]]
[[Fourth Enlightenment Resource: Hume's Newtonianism and Anti-Newtonianism]]
 
[[Fifth Enlightenment Resource: The Blackwell Companion to the Enlightenment]]
 
[[Sixth Enlightenment Resource: Placing the Enlightenment]]
 
[[Summary of Enlightenment Resources]]

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