Emphasized reason, harmony, and restraint In both oral and written communication Also some embraced Deism The Founding Fathers: Neoclassicists 1750-1820.

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Emphasized reason, harmony, and restraint In both oral and written communication Also some embraced Deism The Founding Fathers: Neoclassicists

New scientific discoveries and philosophical thinking challenge the role of faith and establishes and either-or mentality between men of “reason” and men of “faith”

 Dominant philosophy among the educated classes in Europe and America  Believed human reason capable of solving social and political problems  Supreme Being who operates only through natural laws  No belief in the supernatural  Did not accept Jesus as the Son of God

Puritans Deists

PuritansFounding Fathers Christian Plain Puritan Style Personal, devotional literature Deist Neoclassic Style Political literature Believed in community Intellectual thinkers Shaped America

 Neoclassicists believed that humans are natural creatures of God and have rights that cannot be violated or usurped.  Based on John Locke’s philosophical outlook, Neoclassicism views humans as good and rational, deserving the rights of worship, a voice in government, and property ownership

 Individual or natural rights have to be reconciled with societal unity.  People consent to protect each other from harm and provide tools and necessities that are not naturally occurring.  It requires that people give up personal, individual freedoms in order to establish societal rules.

 4th and 5th generation Americans happily living as English subjects until…  King George II imposes regulations that threaten the liberties of colonists  The mind of the nation is on politics and it is reflected in the literature produced  4th and 5th generation Americans happily living as English subjects until…  King George II imposes regulations that threaten the liberties of colonists  The mind of the nation is on politics and it is reflected in the literature produced

 Unlike the personal writing of the Puritans, the Revolutionary Period produced public political writing  Nearly 30 newspapers and almanacs were popular in all the colonies  Much that is known about private life in the period comes from letters

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