Era 7 topic 2 Enlightenment

The Enlightenment 18th century
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The Enlightenment 18th century

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Today
  • The Enlightenment and the scientific revolution
  • Video about the Enlightenment (Verlichting)
  • Questions 

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Enlightenment
  • Means 'Verlichting'
  • It is a period in time in which people started asking questions about society
  • From these ideas came the democracy that we live in!

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Before the Enlightenment
What are we looking at here?


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Who talks to God?
Why do bad things happen?
Why is the king, the king?
How do doctors make people better?
What is air and space?

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The Scientific Revolution
  • Before the enlightenment = Religion, magic, we’ve always done it like that

  • After the enlightenment = The Scientific Method



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Enlightenment
In general the ideas of the Enlightenment had to do with:
 tolerance, freedom and equality.
Philisophers were questioning those concepts:

What is equality?
What is freedom about? Slavery? Why does some people have more influence on the government than others?

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The Enlightenment
Political Ideas
  • Why is the king the boss?
  • Why do some people have more freedom than others?
  • Do people have rights?
  • All people?

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The Enlightenment
Political Ideas
  • Philosophers and other thinkers started to ask questions 
  • Not only about the world but also about society, people and God

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What does equality mean?

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What does liberty mean? What kind of liberty?

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When was the Enlightenment period?
A
1500-1600
B
1600-1700
C
1700-1800
D
1800-1900

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When was the Enlightenment period?
A
16th century
B
17th century
C
18th century
D
19th century

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What was the Enlightenment period?

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What was the Scientific Revolution? Explain

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What were some important Enlightenment ideas? Write down at least 2

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Enlightenment Political ideas
  • Natural rights

  • Liberty

  • Equality

  • Separation of powers


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John Locke:

All people have natural rights that nobody can take away, not even a king.



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Natural rights
Example: 
  • Every person has a right to live life

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Montesquieu

  • He is famous for his theory of the Separation of Powers (Trias Politica):
  • The power of the state should never be in the hands of one person.
  • therefore power should be split up into three seperate parts, being:
  • the legislative (making laws), executive (carrying out the laws) and judicial (providing independent judgement) branch.
  • his ideas are still used in most constitutions all over the world.



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However....
Why was there still inequality in 18th century Europe?

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For extra information, watch the video on the next slide

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The Age of Reason (Verlichting)
A
1500-1600
B
1600-1700
C
1700-1800
D
1800-1900

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Not according to the ideas of the Enlightenment ...
A
Liberty
B
Ignorance
C
Encyclopedia
D
Tolerance

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The ..A.. is a cause for ..B...
A
A. Enlightenment B. Scientific Revolution
B
A. Scientific Revolution B. Enlightenment

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Doubt existence of God 
Political relations 
Gravity
ENLIGHTENMENT
SCIENTIFIC
REVOLUTION

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Thinkers of the Enlightenment
A
Les Catastrophes
B
Les Philosophes
C
Les Scientist

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Very critical of the church, intolerance and French institutions
A
Montesquieu
B
Adam Smith
C
Louis XIV
D
Voltaire

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TRIAS POLITICA
A
Montesquieu
B
Adam Smith
C
Louis XIV
D
Voltaire

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FREE MARKET ECONOMY
A
Montesquieu
B
Adam Smith
C
Diderot
D
Voltaire

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TRIAS POLITICA
A
Explains how to govern as an absolute monarch
B
Explains how power should be divided

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The works of Enlightenment writers were NOT spread by ...
A
Coffeehouses
B
Bars
C
Encyclopedia
D
Universities

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What was the Enlightenment
A
a light bulb moment
B
a scientific movement at the end of the 17th century
C
a new way of thinking inspired by philosophers
D
a new way of governing countries

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What were absolut monarchists?
A
Rulers who shared power with parliaments
B
Rulers who were chosen by the people
C
Rulers who have total power
D
all 3

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Consequences Enlightenment
Short term:
Democratic revolutions like:
French Revolution
Batavian revolution
American War of Independance
People demand more freedom, power and equal rights




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Consequences Enlightenment
Short term:
Abolitionism: alle men are created equal. Therefore Slavery must be abolished.




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Consequences Enlightenment
Long term:
Liberalism
Socialism
Both are political-social movements on how society must be arranged for instance. They are influenced by the ideas from the Enlightenment.






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Consequences Enlightenment
Long term:
religious freedom
freedom of speech
abolish censorship






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