Unit 1, Example 4: The Enlightenment, 1700-1789



 

Benjamin Franklin, Exemplar of the Enlightenment

We look in Unit 1, Example 4 at the philosophical movement of the 18th century that owed so much to the 17th century: the Enlightenment.  Join Dr. Reiman on a tour of its most important ideas and philosophers and the impact that they had on the society–and the Revolutions–of the Eighteenth century.