David hume

David Hume, his Works, and the Period of Enlightenment

By Caparas4

  • Enlightenment Begins

    The Era of Enlightenment begins in response to philosophers' disdain of many religions' superstitious natures. It was a time of reason, logic, critique, and science.
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    The Period of Enlightenment

    Also known as the Age of Reason.

  • Seven Core Ideals of Enlightenment

    1.Human autonomy is the means and end of Enlightenment
    1. The importance of reason
    2. Enlightenment is universal
    3. Progress
    5.Secularism
    1. The centrality of economics to politics
    2. The ideal of popular government

  • Thomas Hobbes

    Hobbes publishes Leviathan. One of the first writings during the Period of Enlightenment.

  • John Locke

    Locke publishes two Treatise on Government

  • Mary Astell/Women's Education

    Mary Astell wrote Serious Proposal to the Ladies. This stated that women needed to become better educated.
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    David Hume's Life

    David Hume is born at Edinburgh to a father who owned a small estate near Berwickshire named "Ninewells" and a mother, Katherine Falconer, who was from a family of lawyers. Dies of Cancer in 1776

  • Hume begins working on his first Treatise

    After an attack of hypocondria, he visits France, where over the next three years, he works on his Treatise of Human Nature.

  • Treatise of Human Nature Published

    The first two volumes of the Treatise is published, One year later the third volume is published, but there is little reaction.

  • Hume Essay: Of Superstition and Enthusiasm

    Hume publishes his Essay of Superstition and Enthusiasm, particularly critiquing the Roman Catholic church.

  • Hume publishes first volume of Essays

    Hume publishes his first volume of essays (one of which is the Essay of Superstiton and Enthusiasm).

  • Hume's Publishes more Essays

    Hume publishes his second volume of Essays

  • Hume in the Military

    Appointed secretary to General St. Clair an travles on a military expedition to Brittany.

  • Hume's Four Dissertations

    Publishes Four Dissertations: The Natural History of Religion, Of the Passions, Of Tragedy, Of the Standard of Taste.

  • Shortened Treatise

    An Enquiry concerning the Human Understanding is republished and renamed (formerly Philosophical Essays concerning the Human Understanding), a condensed version of the Treatise of Human Nature.

  • Beccaria

    Beccaria published On Crimes and Punishments.

  • Hume settles down

    Settles in Edinburgh and lives out his life as a man of letters and acknowledged patriarch of literature helping young writers critically as well as financially amoungst whom were Thomas Blackwell, Tobias Smollett and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

  • Works After Death

    Postumous publication of Dialogues concerning Natural Religion.

  • Immanuel Kant

    Immanuel Kant publishes his Critique of Pure Reason; his analysis of the human mind and how it relates to nature.

  • Condorcet

    Enlightenment philosopher Condorcet publishes a treatise about womens' rights, claiming they have (or should have) all the same rights as men.

  • Enlightenment ends

    The Period of Enlightenment starts to decline as the the Period of Romanticism begins.