Bell Work Get out your notes You are on a cruise ship that goes through the Bermuda Triangle You run aground on an island that has enough food and fresh water for everyone to survive forever Make 5 rules that the island needs

The Enlightenment Students will identify major Enlightenment thinkers and define how they influenced the Founding Fathers

The Enlightenment 1715-1789 Following the Scientific Revolution A period of philosophical thinking Ideas include liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state Students will identify major Enlightenment thinkers and define how they influenced the Founding Fathers

Thomas Hobbes Students will identify major Enlightenment thinkers and define how they influenced the Founding Fathers

Thomas Hobbes In the ‘state of nature’ all people are equal ‘in body and mind’ Everyone is naturally willing to fight one another In this state all people have the right to do anything they want Life is ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short’ Something needs to keep the people in ‘awe’ so that they do not kill each other Students will identify major Enlightenment thinkers and define how they influenced the Founding Fathers

John Locke Students will identify major Enlightenment thinkers and define how they influenced the Founding Fathers

John Locke Takes Hobbes’ theory a bit further Locke says that in the state of nature all people have 3 Natural Rights Life, Liberty, Property Reason is the only way to keep people from a brutish existence Governments are formed to instill reason into society We need government because people have not found a way to live together without conflict People agree to government by giving their consent to be governed (Social Contract) Students will identify major Enlightenment thinkers and define how they influenced the Founding Fathers

Baron de Montesquieu Students will identify major Enlightenment thinkers and define how they influenced the Founding Fathers

Baron de Montesquieu In the ‘State of Nature’ people will look to preserve their lives before anything else People would feel weak in this state and would not be likely to attack each other Society would be created because people will seek nourishment and safety The creation of laws within society is the reflection and application of reason Students will identify major Enlightenment thinkers and define how they influenced the Founding Fathers

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Students will identify major Enlightenment thinkers and define how they influenced the Founding Fathers

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Hated Hobbes’ view Thinks that people are neither good nor bad and it is society and environment that influences which way we lean Rousseau thinks that in a ‘State of Nature’ people won’t know each other well enough to have significant conflicts Society is to blame for interrupting the ‘State of Nature’ which is true freedom It is the job of the government to protect as much freedom as possible Students will identify major Enlightenment thinkers and define how they influenced the Founding Fathers

David Hume Students will identify major Enlightenment thinkers and define how they influenced the Founding Fathers

David Hume Human beings are naturally social ‘Tis utterly impossible for men to remain any considerable time in that savage condition, which precedes society.’ If people were naturally good, they would not hold Justice to be a virtue Because selfishness and dishonesty are innate in humans, Justice is rare and held in high regard Hume says passion guides people over reason, government is put in place to make sure reason wins Students will identify major Enlightenment thinkers and define how they influenced the Founding Fathers

Who is right? Out of the philosophers that we have gone over today, who do you think got it the most right? Why? Argue your answer in an academic paragraph at least 7 sentences in length Students will identify major Enlightenment thinkers and define how they influenced the Founding Fathers