Agenda Things to Get Handouts from the back
Agenda �Things to Get: Handouts from the back Guided notes from last class �Things to Do: Learn about the Enlightenment and its philosophers
Agenda �To Get: Handouts from the back Revolution notes from last class �To Do: -Materials on your table are for later, just ignore them for now. -Finish Guided notes from last class – Marat/J. L. David -Napoleon Activity Guiding Question: What -Enlightenment Thinkers ideas inspired revolution that took -Political Connections to today place in the Atlantic -Enlightenment Bumper Sticker world? Exit Slip
The Enlightenment: Causes �The Scientific Revolution changed the way Europeans looked at the world and challenged them to ask questions (heliocentric theory - Copernicus) �The Enlightenment takes the challenge to ask questions beyond just science to life and being �Philosophers meeting in salons built on the ideas of the Scientific Revolution and began questioning anything absolute. �The Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution was an elite movement that did not impact peasants until much later.
Why? http: //images. easyart. com/i/prints/rw/en_easyart/lg/1/4/The--Jeu-du-Roi--gaming-table-in-the-court-of-Louis-XV-Anonymous-144260. jpg �During the 1600’s, Absolute monarchs lived in lavish courts that were decadent and self serving. �Long term effect: France: Lavish court life was disconnected from the average individual � France’s national debt grows � New Political Thought develops
The Enlightenment �Emphasized the mind’s ability to reason http: //www-gap. dcs. stand. ac. uk/~history/Big. Pictures/Hobbes_3. jpeg �Secular concerns http: //www. ubourgogne. fr/cimeos/CRCM/images/stori es/dossier. Serge/diderot. jpg http: //www. diplomatie. gouv. fr/en/IMG/jpg/ 58 l 1. jpg http: //www. harpers. org/media/image/b logs/misc/edmund-burke. jpg �Main ideas: Freedom from tyranny and superstition Belief in goodness of human nature Equality of men
John Locke �Two Treatises of Government �Human beings possess free will and should be prepared for freedom. �Rulers owe their power to the governed �(idea of the social contract – borrowed from Rousseau) �There are certain natural rights that all people possess. (life, liberty, property)
Voltaire �Aka: Francois Marie Arouet �“Every man is guilty of the good he did not do” �“Judge a man by his questions not by his answers” �Advocated for freedom of speech and freedom of religion
Other important Philosophers �Baron de Montesquieu- advocated for the separation of powers (3 branches of government) �Denis Diderot- created the world’s first encyclopedia to encourage knowledge �Mary Wollstonecraft- called for equal education of men and women
The Enlightenment Philosophers: What was their main idea? �Objective: To understand how the ideas of the Enlightenment changed the Western world �Assignment: Preview the activity worksheet on Enlightenment Philosophers. Look at the provided information packet on the five philosophers �Application: Using the provided document excerpts; answer questions 1 -4 for which philosopher influence that historical document �Time allotted: 20 minutes
Exit Slip Review 1. List the three causes of the French Revolution financial problems, economic depression, enlightenment ideas 2. Name three estates. What group paid most of the taxes? clergy, nobility, everyone else (97%) 3. What new ideas influenced the French Revolution? enlightenment 4. Name one attempt at reform made by Louis XVI before his execution. abolish death penalty for deserters, no land tax, no labor tax 5. How did David “promote those in power? ” artwork with propaganda 6. What did David want to you think about Napoleon from his artwork? strong leader, powerful, hard working, smart 7. What is the phrase: “I do not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it!” What do we call this today? Freedom of Speech - Voltaire
Exit Slip Match the quote/idea to the thinker/philosopher. 1. “Yo, we are like, spinning around this hot ball of fire in a complete vacuum devoid of oxygen. ” 2. “I peered through my far seeing device and saw far. I leaned in and the church PUSHED back. ” 3. How was Bacon makin’ scientific theories ‘bout space and stuff, what subject was it that you might find sort of tuff? (it became really important) 4. “I was ahead of my time by about 300 years. We are just as important, smart and able to be educated as they are! Give us our basic rights!”
Bumper Sticker Activity Directions: Create a bumper sticker for one of the Enlightenment Thinkers. You must include the Thinker’s name and a phrase that represents his ideas… John, “I gotch yo’ rights on, ” Locke
Thinker Flashcards �https: //quizlet. com/101564881/worksheet-of- enlightenment-thinkers-flash-cards/ �Matching Game https: //matchthememory. com/Enlightenment. Thinkers
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