1700–1800 AD

From 1700 to 1800 AD, the Enlightenment reshaped philosophy, politics, economics, science, literature, music, and ideas of human freedom. This section highlights Bach, Berkeley, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Johnson, Hume, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Kant, Burke, Gibbon, Paine, Jefferson, Hamilton, Bentham, Goethe, Blake, Fichte, Malthus, Hegel, and other major voices of the eighteenth century. Together, these works show a world moving toward reason, constitutional government, religious debate, economic theory, political revolution, and modern concepts of liberty, rights, and human progress. Read More