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.

Enlightenment Essay

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. Students should write in 3rd person perspective. The paper should include in-text citations for any quotes or ideas used and a Work Cited page to acknowledge the source(s) of the essay.