THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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propose a new plan ofgovernment for France
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inspire peasants to rise up against the ruling class
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spread Enlightenment ideas as widely as possible
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improve the study of literature by the middle class
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Encyclopédie, Ou Dictionnaire Raisonné Des Sciences, Des Arts Et Des Métiers, often referred to simply as Encyclopédie or Diderot’s Encyclopedia, is a twenty-eight volume reference book published between 1751 and 1772 by André Le Breton and edited by translator and philosopher Denis Diderot.
Detailed explanation-2: -The editors of the encyclopedia believed that all knowledge was interconnected. The Enlightenment reinforced the encyclopedic urge to catalog, to classify, and to order the existing wealth of knowledge by means of reason.
Detailed explanation-3: -The aim of the Encyclopédie was to gather all available knowledge, to examine it critically and rationally, and to use it for social advancement. The subtitle, translated from French to English, reads ‘A Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts’. Research, production and publication took over 40 years.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Encyclopédie is most famous for representing the thought of the Enlightenment. According to Denis Diderot in the article “Encyclopédie", the Encyclopédie’s aim was “to change the way people think” and for people (bourgeoisie) to be able to inform themselves and to know things.