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D’Alembert
• all enlightment wasn’t for all classes
• unrealistic because lower class
• read/educated no leisure time always working
• weakness in their thinking
Voltaire
• “common man” for lower class
• our society is a product of the enlightment.
Edwin Burke
• conservative thinking
• criticize the enlightment
• he said it under minded the church and the state
• predicted the forth coming of the French Revolution.
• enlightened thinkers promoted independent thinking.
• turned to the kings add just fair laws
• kings = enlightened despots (Diderot)