1. Enlightenment (?)… to 1750
Lecture 13
Fall 2013

2. Enlightenment

3. Enlightenment

6. Lecture Questions
What were the European preconditions for enlightenment?
How do the exclusively European origins of enlightenment stand up to a world-centered approach?
Was the European Enlightenment truly enlightening?

7. European Preconditions
Intellectual
Reformation (Treaty of Westphalia, 1648)
Humanism (Sir Thomas More’s Utopia)
Scientific Revolution (Copernicus, heliocentrism)
Material
Printing Press (movable type)
Influx of Wealth into Europe
Social
Shifting Social Order in Europe

8. Traditional Narrative World-Centered Approach
Humanism
Buddhism
European Scientific Revolution
Islamic Scientific Revolution
(al-Battāni, the Solar Year)
European Printing Press
Chinese Printing Press
(Jikii, 1377)

9. Truly Enlightened? European Developments Issues of Scope:
education and government
Issues of Scope:
Beneficiaries
World Importance
Origins of Eurocentrism
Origins of Future Crises