Enlightenment Era

The Age of Enlightenment
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The Age of Enlightenment

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Today's Objectives:
  • Learn about different Enlightened thinkers to see what was their impact on the Age of enlightenment.
  • Take on the role of the Enlightened thinker to see how beliefs or discoveries may have led them to side with different ideas that were raised during this age.

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What was the Age of Enlightenment?
  • The age of enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that held a great influence on the world’s ideas in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • During this time Philosophers and scientists spread their new ideas through meetings at scientific academies, literary salons, and even in coffeehouses and in printed books, journals, and pamphlets.
  • These philosophers and scientists were known as enlightenment thinkers.


Slide 3 - Tekstslide

Every person should be given an education?
A
Agree
B
Disagree

Slide 4 - Quizvraag

Giving up some of your rights in exchange for law and order sounds like a good idea
A
Agree
B
Disagree

Slide 5 - Quizvraag

If people do not agree with the government, then the people have the right to rebel and demand change.
A
Agree
B
Disagree

Slide 6 - Quizvraag

Through experience, people naturally gain wisdom and insight
A
Agree
B
Disagree

Slide 7 - Quizvraag

Humans are naturally selfish.
A
Agree
B
Disagree

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John Locke:
"Father of Liberalism",   political philosophy, concerns about identity,   tabula rasa,  most influential enlightenment thinker.
Mary Wollstonecraft:
Advocate of women's rights, Promotes education equal education between girls and boys, Writer, Feminist Philosopher.
Voltaire:
Criticized Christianity,  Advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, and civil liberties.
Thomas Hobbes:
Creates the "Social Contract theory", Political Philosopher, contributed to geometry, physics, and ethics.
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Mary Astell:
Feminist writer, philosopher, and rhetorician. Advocate of equal educational opportunities for women.
Jean Jacques Rousseau:
Political Philosopher, Influenced aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic and educational thought.
Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier:
French chemist and noblewoman. acted as her husbands laboratory companion and contributed to his work,  was instrumental to the standardization of the scientific method.
Montesquieu:
 Theory of separation of powers, "there should not be a single ruler", Political Philosopher,  French judge.

Slide 9 - Tekstslide

Every person should be given an education?
A
Agree
B
Disagree

Slide 10 - Quizvraag

Giving up some of your rights in exchange for law and order sounds like a good idea
A
Agree
B
Disagree

Slide 11 - Quizvraag

If people do not agree with the government, then the people have the right to rebel and demand change.
A
Agree
B
Disagree

Slide 12 - Quizvraag

Through experience, people naturally gain wisdom and insight
A
Agree
B
Disagree

Slide 13 - Quizvraag

Humans are naturally selfish.
A
Agree
B
Disagree

Slide 14 - Quizvraag

 Did you feel like you and your thinker had some of the same opinions?
Can you see the influence of your thinker today?

Slide 15 - Tekstslide