L'epoca Neoclassica: premessa storico-filosofica

The scientific revolution would underlie the French Revolution as much as the birth of Neoclassicism. Against the amoral frivolities of a Rococo art created for the fleeting pleasure of aristocrats, French Enlightenment intellectuals would rally artists to teach the people to distinguish good from evil, to praise virtue over vice, and tolerance over prejudice. 00:00 Derby, A Philosopher Lectures on a Planetarium (1765) 01:39 Legacy of the Scientific Revolution, Industrial Revolution 02:10 Cities, Railways, Steam Power, Gaslight 03:30 The Enlightenment (shedding new light and clarity - science, reason) 04:20 Universal and Immutable Laws (Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot) 05:24 Rousseau, Social Contract 1762, Power by the Will of the People 06:32 Equality Before the Law, Natural Rights (Optimism) 07:18 Deism (Creating and Triggering the Mechanism of Nature) 08:01 Critique of the Corruption of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Rococo 08:30 Moral Art (Right/Wrong) Versus Immoral Privileges 09:47 Power of Great Monarchies (Frivolities) Rococo) 10:26 Diderot: Virtue is attractive and vice is hateful (essay on painting) 11:25 Fragonard's The Swing (1767) 12:33 Financial crisis and social anger (Constitution)