Enlightenment Era

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The Age of Enlightenment

Today's Objectives:

• Learn about different Enlightened thinkers to see what was their impact on the Age of enlightenment.
• Take on the role of the Enlightened thinker to see how beliefs or discoveries may have led them to side with different ideas that were raised during this age.

What was the Age of Enlightenment?

• The age of enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that held a great influence on the world’s ideas in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
  
• During this time Philosophers and scientists spread their new ideas through meetings at scientific academies, literary salons, and even in coffeehouses and in printed books, journals, and pamphlets.
  
• These philosophers and scientists were known as enlightenment thinkers.
  

Every person should be given an education?

1. Agree
2. Disagree

Giving up some of your rights in exchange for law and order sounds like a good idea

1. Agree
2. Disagree

If people do not agree with the government, then the people have the right to rebel and demand change.

1. Agree
2. Disagree

Through experience, people naturally gain wisdom and insight

1. Agree
2. Disagree

Humans are naturally selfish.

1. Agree
2. Disagree

John Locke:

"Father of Liberalism",   political philosophy, concerns about identity,   tabula rasa,  most influential enlightenment thinker.

Mary Wollstonecraft:

Advocate of women's rights, Promotes education equal education between girls and boys, Writer, Feminist Philosopher.

Voltaire:

Criticized Christianity,  Advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, and civil liberties.

Thomas Hobbes:

Creates the "Social Contract theory", Political Philosopher, contributed to geometry, physics, and ethics.

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Mary Astell:

Feminist writer, philosopher, and rhetorician. Advocate of equal educational opportunities for women.

Jean Jacques Rousseau:

Political Philosopher, Influenced aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic and educational thought.

Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier:

French chemist and noblewoman. acted as her husbands laboratory companion and contributed to his work,  was instrumental to the standardization of the scientific method.

Montesquieu:

 Theory of separation of powers, "there should not be a single ruler", Political Philosopher,  French judge.

Every person should be given an education?

1. Agree
2. Disagree

Giving up some of your rights in exchange for law and order sounds like a good idea

1. Agree
2. Disagree

If people do not agree with the government, then the people have the right to rebel and demand change.

1. Agree
2. Disagree

Through experience, people naturally gain wisdom and insight

1. Agree
2. Disagree

Humans are naturally selfish.

1. Agree
2. Disagree

 Did you feel like you and your thinker had some of the same opinions?

Can you see the influence of your thinker today?