Analyze a work by an Enlightenment author to derive an understanding of its place in the period, as well as its influence on contemporary ideals.
Choose an Enlightenment author and one of his/her works and discuss the prevailing theme(s) and sentiments(s) of the work, its place and/or importance in its own time, and its influence on modern day thoughts and beliefs. Major authors of the Enlightenment include Immanuel Kant, Rene Descartes, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond D’Alembert, David Hume, James Beattie, Mary Wollstonecraft, Ben Franklin, and the Marquis de Sade. For your search, you may use the electronic resources available through Library Services such as Lit Finder, J-STOR, or Academic Search Complete, or any other good quality database for this assignment.
