Enlightenment

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Step 1. Read excerpts from the Marquis de Condorcet’s Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Mind (1795): https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/condorcet-progress.asp Step 2. Choose any ONE of the following set of excerpts and read: – Any one of the articles on women in the Diderot’s Encyclopedie: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/title/W.html – Guyomar: https://revolution.chnm.org/items/show/288 – De Gouges. Declartion of the Rights of Women: https://revolution.chnm.org/items/show/557 Step 3. Compare Condorcet’s ideas and ideals to those in the chosen other writing. Are these individuals on the same page? Where do they differ? Where do they agree? Together they will be the basis for a late Enlightenment point of view. Give specific examples from the texts given above with quotes and page numbers. Step 4. With the benefit of 200 years of hindsight, to what extent have their visions turned out to be true, accurate, or still relevant (or not)? Step 5. Take on the role of one of the last philosophes, the Marquis de Condorcet, or the second author you chose. Through the magic of reanimation, you are now in the 21st century. What do you see and what do you think about it. Write up a page to make public your view.