The Enlightenment & Scientific Revolution
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The Enlightenment & Scientific Revolution
Age of Enlightenment - aka (also known as)
Age of Reason
Enlightenment = rationality ethics
knowledge reform
The Scientific Revolution
• = Ancient ideas of the church challenged by scholars
• Many scholars persecuted by the Church – Copernicus (Sun not earth
at center of universe)– Galileo Galiliei
(Telescope, New theories on space)
– Issac Newton (Gravity)
AutonomousRational
IndividualDependent Individual
ChurchMonarch
Before After
The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment
• = period of new ideas thoughts on government, the individual, and society
• Thomas Hobbes– Social Contract = People
must give up some of their rights to a strong ruler
– People are born evil
The Enlightenment
• John Locke– People are born free &
equal– Natural Rights (life,
liberty, & property– Govt. must protect these
rights
• Baron de Montesquieu– Believed in the seperation
of power in govt. – Should have checks and
balances
The Enlightenment• Jacques Rousseau
– People are born free but society corrupts them
• Mary Wollstonecraft– Equal rights for women /
education
• Voltaire– “I disagree with what you
say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
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