Representatives of the European Enlightenment of the 17th–18th Centuries on a New Type of Family Education: A Comparative Analysis of Pedagogical Ideas

The article examines the approaches to family education, which were proposed by European thinkers of the 17th–18th centuries: S. L. Montesquieu, J.-J. Rousseau, D. Diderot, B. Spinoza, A. Smith, I. Kant, F. Fenеlon, F.-M. A. Voltaire, J. Locke, J. La Mettrie. The aim of the work was to study the rethinking of the process of raising children in the family in the spirit of enlightenment, presented in the works of thinkers. The contribution of European enlighteners to the creation of the concept of education is indicated, which implied a new approach to understanding the goals, objectives, principles, and methods of education. The new type of education implied the humanisation of relations between parents and children, which determined the process of further development of the European family in this direction.