The 18th Century Enlightenment

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The 18th Century Enlightenment
By Luke Robbins, Isabel Leonard, and Sydney
Weisbach
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TIMELINE
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ENLIGHTENMENT
A philosophical movement of the 18th century that
emphasized the use of reason to scrutinize
previously accepted doctrines and traditions and
that brought about many humanitarian reforms.
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Philosophes

• Started in France
• Began in 1656
• Intellectual thinkers that began to push people
  to think not of religion and superstition to
  rational thinking and questioning
• Theory of Progress

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John Locke

• Two Treatises of Government
• Natural Laws
• Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• Political Philosopher

John Locke What he did, his effect on the
enlightenment Things that influenced the
enlightenment (did john locke invent natural law?
Or Im not sure)
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Beginning of The Enlightenment

• Essay on Tolerance
• The Glorious Revolution
• William III and Mary II

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Francois-Marie Arouet

• Pen name is Voltaire
• Individual Freedom
• Against the Roman Catholic church and Christianity

Voltaire Basically anything significant about him
because he is like very important and stuff
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Baron De Montesquieu

• LEsprit de Lois (1748)
• Letters Persanes (Persian Letters)

Baron De montesquie His ideas and the
revolution List of his works
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Jean- Jaque Rousseau

• Political Equality
• The Social Contract
• Popular Sovereignty/ Sovereignty

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Adam Smith

• Wealth of Nations
• Laws of Supply and Demand

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Mary Astell Her Howshe influenced the
Enlightenment Effect on society
Mary Astell

• Enlightenment Feminist
• A Serious Proposal to The Ladies Part I and II

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Mary Wollstonecraft

• Philosopher and Feminist
• A Vindication of Womens Rights

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Deism
The belief, based solely on reason, in a God who
created the universe and then abandoned it,
assuming no control over life, exerting no
influence on natural phenomena, and giving no
supernatural revelation.
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The Enlightenment Today
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