This website is an excellent website that goes in depth with facts about the enlightenment and it is an excellent source for a person who wants to or needs to learn about the enlightenment. The website shows how the intellectual occurrences that happened in the 18th century started way before the 18th century and slowly developed into what we called the enlightenment. The site tells the reader that the name enlightenment got its name from the thinkers that were key figures in the intellectual movement. Is says that the thinkers believed that they were more enlightened then other people around them and in turn they wanted to enlighten other people. Thinkers believed that human reason built a better world and could be used to go against ignorance, tyranny and superstition. The thinkers wanted to take what they thought and insert their thoughts into the minds religious leaders and aristocrats. The website take the reader back to the renaissance to make the reader get a feel that the enlightenment didn�t just originate out of the blue but that it took many years and many discoveries and observations for the thinkers to make their add-ons to what was given to them.
The Enlightenment, http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/enlightenment.html , November 3 2004
My next site is about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart who was a very successful composer and performer during the enlightenment. The website gives a pretty good in depth biography about Mozart from when Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg till when he died in Vienna on December 5, 1791.This website also has a small photo gallery and pages for different symphony�s and concerts for the observer, so that once the reader has read the website he or she can see portraits of Wolfgang and hear audios of each symphony and concert that has been talked about on the website. You can listen to symphonies 29-41 on the website. The site allows the observer to listen to seven of Mozart�s violin concerts and 27 of Mozart�s piano concerts. This website is good because it gives the option for the reader to listen to Mozart�s work, read about Mozart�s work or look at Mozart, himself, which is a good formula for a good website. The website looks like it is still under construction because of topics that don�t have links so this site can and most likely will get better which is unbelievable because it is already a very good website.
Boynick, Matt, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/mozart.html , November 3, 2004
My last site I found is a website about Jean- Jacques Rousseau who was said to be by many the most controversial philosophe during the Enlightenment. This site gives a good timeline of Rousseau�s life from when he was born in Geneva on June 12, 1712 to his death in Ermenonville on July 2, 1788. The website outlines 28 years of Rousseau�s life with important events that happened by each date, the important events aren�t long but they are to the point and tell the reader what happened during the year. It also offers a link to a website that has a biography of Rousseau which gives a more detailed description of Rousseau�s life than the information presented on the website. The website alone provides enough information for a one page report for a person who is researching Rousseau and with the aid of the linked biography the person can put together a real good paper. I think the website could have put some of his operas or published books as links so the observer can maybe get a feel about what his style of writing was or the kind of moods he was in.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (1712-1778), http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/rousseau.html, November 3, 2004