Enlightenment Philosophers Thomas Hobbes 1588 1679 The condition

Enlightenment Philosophers

Thomas Hobbes 1588 - 1679 • The condition of man. . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone. • No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death: and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

John Locke 1632 - 1704 All mankind. . . being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. The State, according to my ideas, is a society of men established for the sole purpose of the establishment, preservation and promotion of their civil interests. I call on civil interests, life, freedom, the health of the body, the possession of external goods, such as are money, land, houses, furniture, and things of that nature.

Baron de Montesquieu 1689 - 1755 • It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power. • The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Voltaire 1694 - 1778 • Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. • Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 -1778 • I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will. • However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Rousseau continued: The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine, " and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

Enlightenment ACE Choose one of the topics discussed today and write an ACE paragraph explaining how it is an outgrowth of the Enlightenment.

Revolutions For your Revolutions thesis statement you need to compare and contrast 2 of the 4 revolutions we've studied in class (French, American, Haitian and Latin American), or 2 of the documents which came from those Revolutions or 2 of the leaders of those Revolutions (leaders and documents compared should not be from the same revolution). MODEL – Although _____Subject___ and ___Subject__ are similar in that ___S_____ and _____S____. They differ in some ways such as ____D____ and _____D______. REMEMBER – Comparisons must be DIRECT and RELEVANT. ◦ E. g. Egyptian kings were considered a god on earth, whereas Mesopotamia’s kings were merely the chief priests.

Exit Slip – Compare and Contrast Thesis Statements Choose 2 of the Imperial Systems and construct a compare and contrast thesis statement MODEL – Although _____Subject___ and ___Subject__ are similar in that ___S_____ and _____S____. They differ in some ways such as ____D____ and _____D______. REMEMBER – Comparisons must be DIRECT and RELEVANT. ◦ E. g. Egyptian kings were considered a god on earth, whereas Mesopotamia’s kings were merely the chief priests. 3/7/2021