The Enlightenment Scientific Revolution Age of Enlightenment aka
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The Enlightenment & Scientific Revolution
Age of Enlightenment - aka (also known as) Age of Reason Enlightenment = rationality ethics knowledge reform
The Scientific Revolution • = Ancient ideas of the church challenged by scholars • Many scholars persecuted by the Church – Copernicus (Sun not earth at center of universe) – Galileo Galiliei (Telescope, New theories on space) – Issac Newton (Gravity)
The Enlightenment Before Church Monarch Dependent Individual After Autonomous Rational Individual
The Enlightenment • = period of new ideas thoughts on government, the individual, and society • Thomas Hobbes – Social Contract = People must give up some of their rights to a strong ruler – People are born evil
The Enlightenment • John Locke – People are born free & equal – Natural Rights (life, liberty, & property – Govt. must protect these rights • Baron de Montesquieu – Believed in the seperation of power in govt. – Should have checks and balances
The Enlightenment • Jacques Rousseau – People are born free but society corrupts them • Mary Wollstonecraft – Equal rights for women / education • Voltaire – “I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
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