4.1 The Enlightenment

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The next unit.
What is it going to be about?

You will see 4 pictures.
Each pictures represents a Typical Aspect of this new Age

Use your phone to guess what the Typical Aspect is.
Good Luck



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What is this Age called?
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the Time of Slavery and Revolution
B
the Time of Enlightenment and Beyond
C
the Time of Masters and Slaves
D
the Time of Wigs and Revolutions

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What dates belong to this Age?
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the 18th century
B
the 1800s
C
1800 - 1900 AD
D
the 17th century

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the Time of Wigs and Revolutions
1700 - 1800
Typical Aspects:

  • -the Enlightenment
  • -the American Revolution
  • -slavery and abolitionism
  • -the French Revolution

  • the 18th century



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what do children owe to the enlightenment thinkers?

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Lesson 4.1: The Enlightenment
  • The Enlightenment = De Verlichting
  • It was a new way of thinking that spread across Europe in the 18th century
  • It is also called "The Age of Reason"
  • It evolved from the Scientific Revolution
  • Bright thinkers believed that with the use of reason, they could solve all problems and rid the world of "dark ideas".
  • if they were successful the world would be "enlightened".

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Enlightened thinkers (philosophers) used reason to hopefully improve:

  • politics ( the divine right of kings? Does that make any sense?)
  • religion ( does God exist? Can this be proven by science?)
  • economy (what economic system can make everybody wealthy, not just a small group?)
  • social issues ( poverty, inequality, criminality. Can we solve these problems by using reason and science?)

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John Locke:

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



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What would you consider to be a
BASIC RIGHT for all humans?

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Voltaire


  • wrote more than two thousand books and pamphlets on all sorts of topics
  • was very critical towards the catholic church and the French king.
  • because of this he was put in prison and later exiled from France
  • his ideas were important in the French Revolution



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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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Adam Smith


  • Scottish economist. Wrote the book "Wealth of Nations"
  • Believed that the economy works best if there is Free Trade.
  • A government should not interfere in the economy.
  • He was against mercantilism.



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Word Duty





WORD DUTY


Enlightenment: movement of thinkers striving to nd the world of dark ideas such as ignorance, 
irrationality, intolerance and inequality.
Rational optimism: the belief that a rational way of thinking and ideas could bring about 
progress, making life better for mankind 
Basic human rights: a right that every person has and which has to be respected, even by kings. 
Atheist: someone who does not believe in the existence of any God.
Deist: Someone who believes in a God that created the universe according to natural laws, but does not interfere with humans.
Trias Politica: the idea that the power of the state should be divided into three different parts 
Free market economy: economic system with little or no government interference allowing competition between sellers, while the amount of buyers dictates the size of the market.
Salon: meetings where members of the upper class would meet and have scientists and philosophers speak about their work and ideas 
Encyclopedie (encyclopedia): a collection of knowledge on as many subjects as possible








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Overview development worldview
You will receive a paper handout of this schedule. Then you can fill in the gaps using these options: 
- natural laws - work of God - Greeks and Romans - scientists - reason - sciences - economy - social issues - reading the Bible - empirical thinking - philosophers - natural phenomena - the Church - social issues - rational thinking - politics - humanists - religion - Scientific Method

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You will get a handout that you can fill in. So you do’nt need to copy the whole schedule
Summary 4.1: The Enlightenment

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Summary 4.1: The Enlightenment
Copy and fill in: social contract - free trade - Trias Politica - critical towards clergy, nobility and absolutism - natural rights

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Write down a question about something from this lesson that you don't understand.

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congratulations
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