l’ésprit (1758), Helvétius follows the
that usually are not practically as evident as Locke 
assumes. Locke’s
The early enlightenment: 1685-1730
Treatises, his Inquiry Concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony,
The late enlightenment and beyond: 1780-1815
deism, the so-called “Cult of the Supreme Being”, as the
beauty is “nothing more” than a human thought or experience. As within the domain of Enlightenment ethics, so with Enlightenment
The enlightenment key facts
Germany, Diderot not only philosophized about art and sweetness, but also
tracts which might be sympathetic to deism; and their deistic sympathies