Enlightenment+on+the+French+Revolution

__Enlightment ideas regarding religion__ __Enlightenment ideas regarding society__ __Impact on French Revolution__
 * Emily Liu**
 * How and to what extent did Enlightenment ideas about religion and society shape the policies of the French Revolution in the period 1789-1799**
 * Thesis: Enlightenment ideas, such as Rousseau's "general will" and Voltaire's "deism", influenced the third estate of France to begin the French Revolution.**
 * Voltaire - Deism
 * Descartes - Cartesian Dualism
 * Montesquieu - "Persian Letters" - criticized the Catholic church and French monarchy
 * Spinoza - pantheism
 * Pascal - unification of science and religion
 * Rousseau - General Will
 * Diderot - "Encyclopedia"
 * Locke - Tabula Rasa
 * Hume - "science of a man" (human reasoning)
 * Adam Smith - laissez faire
 * 3rd estate revolting against the monarchy
 * Fall of the Bastille
 * National Assembly
 * Declaration on the Rights of Man and the Citizen
 * Dechristianization