Presentation by Jenny Taylor.

1. Enlightenment Rhetoric:
The Age of Reason
GiambattistaVicoOn the Study Methods of
Our Time
&
John Locke Human Understanding

2. Enlightenment Thinking
• Reject superstition
• Sought truth through use of reason
• Viewed world from secular, human centered perspective
• Embraced humanism
• Limitlessness in knowledge – revolutions in science and
philosophy
• Empiricism
• Experimental method
• A belief in human perfectibility through education and
unlimited progress

3. Detailed
Explanation of
the System of
Human
Knowledge,
1751

4. Diderot’s Encyclopedie

5. Phase 1: Rococo Style
Jean-Antoine Watteau, Departure from Cythera, 1717

6. Jean-Honore
Fragonard, The
Lover Crowned,
1771-1773

7. Phase 2: Neoclassicism
Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784

8. David, The Death of Socrates, 1787

9. Casper David Phase 3:
Friedrich, Romanticism
Wanderer
above the
Sea of Fog,
1818