The Enlightenment 16-1
description
Transcript of The Enlightenment 16-1
![Page 1: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
The Enlightenment16-1
Discuss how the Enlightenment thinkers influenced the world
![Page 2: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Video
![Page 3: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Enlightenment Roots
• Traced back to the Greeks and romans• Gained knowledge through observation, logic, and reasoning• Believed in the worth of the individual
• Renaissance and Reformation stress the individual• Equality key feature of the Enlightenment
![Page 4: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
JOHN LOCKE
• English philosopher• Did not oppose monarchies: disagreed on the divine right of a king• Power of the government comes from the people not God or ruler• People give their consent to be governed• Governments job is to protect the people, if fails the people have the
right to change the government• NATURAL RIGHTS: people are born with rights that can not be taken
away• Life, liberty and property
![Page 5: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
JOHN LOCKE
Video
![Page 6: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
![Page 7: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
PHILOSPHES/ PHILOSOPHERS
• BELIEVE THAT REASON COULD SOLVE EVERY PROBLEM AND THAT SOCIETY CAN PROGRESS
• CHALLENGED OLD BELIEFS ABOUT POWER
• CHURCH AND ABSOLUTE MONARCHS FEEL THREATENED
• TRIED TO SILENCE THE PHILOSPHIES
![Page 8: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
VOLTAIRE
• Francois Marie Aroquet: Voltaire• Wrote more then 70 books
• Spoke out against religious intolerance and against superstition in the Church
• Was put in jail for his writings, forced to leave France
•Believed in freedom of speech and liberty
![Page 9: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
![Page 10: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Video on Montequieu
![Page 11: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
WHAT DID MONTESQUIEU MEAN WHEN HE SAID
![Page 12: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
MONTESQUIEU• The Baron de Montesquieu• Believed liberty was a natural right• Opposed absolute monarchs• Feared the government could become too powerful• Wanted separation of power in government
• 3 branches, laws, enforce, interpret• checks and balances
Basis of U.S. Constitution
![Page 13: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
SEPERATION OF POWER
![Page 14: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
ROUSSEAU
• Jean Jacques Rousseau• Wrote the book The Social Contract• Democracy was the best form of government• People should create a government that will defend individual rights
and protect the good of the whole• Believed in votes• Opposed absolute monarchs, titles and nobility• Believed people were created equal• His ideas caused revolt
![Page 15: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
![Page 16: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
ROUSSEAU
Video on Rousseau
![Page 17: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
WOMEN IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT
• Wealthy woman hosted salons• Thinkers and artists participated• Discussed and exchanged ideas on a equal basis• Salons provided an education for woman
![Page 18: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Marie Therese Rodet Geoffrin
• Most admired of the salon hostesses
• Most guest were nobility some not• Foreigners invited brought new
ideas• Discussion were written up and
published in newspapers for the general public
• Enlightenment ideas were spread through the salons
![Page 19: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Judith Sargent Murray
• 1784 in America• Wrote that women that are deprived
of education thought poorly of themselves
![Page 20: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
MARY ASTELL
• 1964• Focused on social issues• Lack of education for women
![Page 21: The Enlightenment 16-1](https://reader035.fdocuments.in/reader035/viewer/2022062408/56813e83550346895da8b7fb/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
• 1792 published A vindication of the Rights of Woman• Argued well educated woman would help create enlightened families• Public life would become strengthened through enlightened families