Critique & Crisis

Absolutism
raison d'état
cuius regio, eius religio
erastianism (state / church)

French Wars of Religion
French Revolution
Fronde (1648-53)

conscience
critique / criticism
external prudence
internal conscience

Hobbes

• ch. 31: private is in secret free
• ch. 29: diseases of a commonwealth

"Enlightenment"

aesthetics
the arts

• Friedrich Schiller
• Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism
• Denis Diderot, L'art pour la morale
• Lessing, Hamburgische Dramaturgie
• Locke, Essay concerning human understanding

scholarship

police
manners, polite

societies - Freemasons