The Enlightenment

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The Enlightenment
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What does Enlightenment mean?

• An intellectual movement that stresses reason and
  thought.
• The Enlightenment will also be geared for
  individuals to solve problems.
• Will also be known as the Age of Reason .

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Main Ideas

• Will cover, challenge and bring new insight in
  four categories
• Government
• Religion
• Economics
• Education

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Key Players

• Some of the key people during the Enlightenment
  were
• Thomas Hobbs
• John Locke
• Francois Marie Arouet aka Voltaire
• Baron de Montesquieu
• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Cesare Bonesana Beccaria

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Philosophes

• This is the term for all of these key players or
  social critics during the Enlightenment.
• Applied reason to all aspects of life.
• They had five concepts for their core of beliefs
• Reason
• Nature
• Happiness
• Progress
• Liberty

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Key Player

• Thomas Hobbs
• A English political thinker
• Social Contract
• Believed in a ruler having total power.

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Key Player

• John Locke
• A English political thinker
• Natural Rights
• All people born free and equal

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Key Player

• Francois Marie Arouet aka Voltaire
• Fought for tolerance, reason, freedom of
  religious belief and freedom of speech.

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Key Player

• Baron de Montesquieu
• Separation of Power
• Checks and Balances

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Key Player

• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Individual freedom
• Direct Democracy

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Key Player

• Cesare Bonesana Beccaria
• Justice System

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Women during the Enlightenment

• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Published an Essay for women's rights
• Mary Astell
• Strived for better education for women
• Emilie du Chatelet
• Translated Isaac Newtons work

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Long lasting effects of the Enlightenment

• The Enlightenment will have three lasting
  legacies the first of which will bring about a
  more democratic style of government.

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Long term effects continued

• The Enlightenment will also influence people to
  have a more secular or non-religious attitude in
  their life.

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A little more

• Finally the Enlightenment will influence people
  to have more faith in themselves and their own
  abilities.

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Question of the Day

• How would you compare the Scientific revolution
  to the Enlightenment?