WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Enlightenment reached its height in France in the mid-1700s. Paris became the meeting place for people who wanted to discuss politics and ideas. The social critics of this period in France were known as philosophes (FIHL•uh•SAHFS), the French word for philosophers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Note: The philosophers who impacted the French revolution were writers and scientists who were extremely brilliant. Baron de Montesquieu, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Denis Diderot were among them. They had a significant impact on the French Revolution in the 18th century.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Enlightenment’s important 17th-century precursors included the Englishmen Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes, the Frenchman René Descartes and the key natural philosophers of the Scientific Revolution, including Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Detailed explanation-4: -Some of the most important writers of the Enlightenment were the Philosophes of France, especially Voltaire and the political philosopher Montesquieu. Other important Philosophes were the compilers of the Encyclopédie, including Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Condorcet.

Detailed explanation-5: -The social critics of the enlightenment in France were called philosophes. Five concepts formed the core of their beliefs: reason, nature, happiness, progress, and liberty.