Todays Objective Understand Enlightenment people their principles Understand
Today’s Objective • Understand Enlightenment people & their principles • Understand how the Enlightenment impacts the way we think & govern today! – basic vocabulary notes, Enlightened thinkers Biography Jigsaw activity Bell Ringer Interpret this quote. What do you think is going to happen for absolute governments as a result of Enlightenment quotes like this? *Grab a textbook! “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. ” ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Background (how did the ideas of each one lead to the other? • Renaissance • Reformation • Scientific Revolution • Exploration/ Discovery • Absolutism • Enlightenment
What is the Enlightenment? • used to describe a time in Western philosophy and cultural life, during the 1700’s, in which through reason, reason people & governments could solve every social, political, & economic problem – Stemmed from the SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION! • The time of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Jean. Jacques Rousseau, & Adam Smith • People started to look at individuals & society- who should rule society? How involved should government be in business? What rights should people have in a society?
Why did this happen? • Monarchs were TOO ABSOLUTE! TOO CONTROLLING! • People started to get tired of being controlled & because they had education, they realized they didn’t need to be controlled!
Enlightenment Vocabulary • Natural law- rules discoverable by reason – Used scientific natural law & applied it to society, politics, & economics (stemmed from the Scientific Revolution) • Social contract- an agreement by which people give up their freedom for an organized society (Thomas Hobbes) • Natural rights- rights that belonged to all humans from birth (life, liberty, & property) (John Locke) • Laissez- Faire- allowing business to operate w/ little or no government interference
Enlightenment Thinkers Biography Jigsaw! You will be an enlightened thinker! 1) Hobbes 2) Locke 3) Montesquieu 4) Voltaire 5) Diderot 6) Rousseau 7) Smith • Read about your thinker you were assigned. (Chapter 5, Section 1 from textbook) or from the internet.
Today’s Objective • Understand Enlightenment people & their principles • Understand how the Enlightenment impacts the way we think & govern today! – basic vocabulary notes, Enlightened thinkers Biography Jigsaw activity Any Questions? ?
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