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1705................................................ Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz <strong>of</strong>fers a significant critique <strong>of</strong> the Lockean viewin New Essays on Human Understanding.1709................................................ Birth <strong>of</strong> Julien Offray de La Mettrie.1710................................................ George Berkeley publishes his critique <strong>of</strong> the Lockean view, A TheoryConcerning the Principles <strong>of</strong> Human Knowledge.1710................................................ Birth <strong>of</strong> Thomas Reid.1711................................................ Birth <strong>of</strong> David Hume.1712................................................ Birth <strong>of</strong> Jean-Jacques Rousseau.1715................................................ Birth <strong>of</strong> the French philosopher Claude Adrien Helvetius.1715................................................ Birth <strong>of</strong> Etienne Condillac, John Locke’s translator in France.1716................................................ Death <strong>of</strong> Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz.1724................................................ Birth <strong>of</strong> Immanuel Kant.1729................................................ Birth <strong>of</strong> Edmund Burke.1734................................................ Voltaire writes his Letters on the English.1739................................................ David Hume publishes An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, whichaimed to defeat Skepticism by putting philosophy on a firmer footing,grounding morality, science, and politics in the realm <strong>of</strong> experience.1743................................................ Birth <strong>of</strong> Condorcet.1748................................................ La Mettrie publishes the banned book Man—A Machine, which extends thematerialistic drift <strong>of</strong> Descartes’s psychology.Mid-18 th century ............................. The “Scottish Enlightenment.”1751................................................ Death <strong>of</strong> La Mettrie.1757................................................ Birth <strong>of</strong> Pierre Cabanis.1758................................................ Birth <strong>of</strong> Franz Joseph Gall.1764................................................ Thomas Reid publishes An Inquiry into the Human Mind.1770................................................ Birth <strong>of</strong> Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.1771................................................ Death <strong>of</strong> Claude Adrien Helvetius.1772................................................ Helvetius’s A Treatise on Man, which maintains that human essence does notprecede our existence and experiences in the world, published posthumously.1773................................................ John Locke’s Two Treatises is published in colonial America.1776................................................ Death <strong>of</strong> David Hume.1778................................................ Death <strong>of</strong> Jean-Jacques Rousseau.1778................................................ Death <strong>of</strong> François Marie Arouet (Voltaire).1780................................................ Death <strong>of</strong> Etienne Condillac.1781................................................ Immanuel Kant publishes his Critique <strong>of</strong> Pure Reason, which credits DavidHume with awakening Kant from his “dogmatic slumber.”1783................................................ Death <strong>of</strong> George Berkeley.1787................................................ The U.S. Constitution is forged in Philadelphia. During the subsequentratification period, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay writeessays in the New York newspapers addressing and countering the various©2004 The Teaching Company Limited Partnership 35

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