6.3 The Enlightenment

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6.3 Instruction Enlightenment

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Objectives for this lesson

At the end of this lesson...

...you know what was and what caused the enlightenment.

...you know how the enlightenment spread through Europe.

...you can name at least 4 ideas from the enlightenment.

6.3 The Enlightenment

What caused the Enlightenment?

The Renaissance

Scientific revolution

Enlightenment

''An intellectual and philosophical movement that reached great heights during the 18th century.''

Immanuel Kant

“Enlightenment is throwing off these chains of mental immaturity that we have brought upon ourselves. This mental immaturity makes it impossible to use reason without being led to do so by another”.

Ratio

Reason, common sense

The scientists dare to trust their own Ratio and no longer blindly follow whatever the church and the king say.

Who in France wouldn't be happy with people using their Ratio? And why?

How were their ideas spread?

Through salons

With Encyclopedias

(Predecessor of wikipedia)

How did the Republic react

-> Artifacts with Van Bruggen

Tow barge (trekschuit)

Critiquing the church

Scientist disproved a lot of superstitions.

For example: They believe such things as that the devil could fly into your mouth if you left it open for too long.

Modern superstitions

New kind of christianity (deism)

-God made the earth a left.

-All lawes of nature have been

placed their by God.

Dutch Spinoza was a Deist 

(also Voltaire and Kant)

New idea= Atheism

Diderot:

-There is no god.

-Laws of nature determine 

everything.

New idea= Fundamental rights

New idea= Seperation of power

Montesquieu:

Seperation of power:

-Legislative power

-Executive power

-Judicial Branch 

Before Montesquieu these powers weren't seperation

Enlightenment

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6.3 Instruction Enlightenment

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