1. The Age of Enlightenment

2. Enlightenment: What does that mean?
Find a partner and analyze each others definition of Enlightenment
How close were they?

3. Goal of the Enlightenment:
To understand the ideas behind the Age of Enlightenment
To understand how those ideas affected politics and society

4. The Age of Enlightenment
A period of intellectual exchange in Europe during the 18th century
“Progress”
A desire for political and social change

5. The Age of Enlightenment
What made the Enlightenment possible?
How did this period “reflect” change?

6. Words of the Enlightenment:
Reason
Rational
HOPE
Natural Law
PROGRESS

7. So how did these ideas spread?
Growth of Reading
Salons

8. The Philosophes Intellectuals who discussed ideas
Used reason to explain their world
Believed that Reason could improve society
Believed in tolerance for all religions

9. The Philosophes (pg 172)

10. Voltaire ( )
French intellectual who criticized French society

11. John Locke ( )

12. Treatises on Government Essay on Human Understanding
John Locke (page 171)
Treatises on Government
Essay on Human Understanding
“Tabula Rasa”

13. Voltaire and his vision of God
Page 172

14. Denis Diderot ( )

15. Denis Diderot (1713-1784) Published the Encyclopedia in 1772
Attempt to compile information on everything

16. The Encyclopedia

17. Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)

18. Baron de Montesquieu (Page 173)
French political philosopher
The Spirit of the Laws

19. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

20. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Page 173)
The Social Contract (1762)
The “General Will”

21. Adam Smith ( )

22. Adam Smith
First modern economist
The Wealth of Nations (1776)
Laissez-Faire (“Let do”)

23. The Wealth of Nations

24. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

25. Mary Wollstonecraft (Page 175)
Wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Founder of modern feminism

26. Conclusion
The Enlightenment was a period of intellectual exchange in Europe during the 18th century
Several factors contributed to the Enlightenment
Philosophes expressed desire for social and political change

27. Impact of the Enlightenment: Section 3
Art Literature Music

28. Enlightenment and Enlightened Absolutism
What does this term mean?
What do we know about how rulers of this time period ruled their countries?
So what are enlightened rulers? (page 310)

29. Enlightened Absolute Rulers
Fredrick the Great (Prussia)
Catherine The Great (Russia)

30. *Maria Theresa (Austria) Son: Joseph II
Daughter:
Marie Antoinette

32. What role would you have in this time periods society?

33. The American Revolution
Was the American Revolution just a revolt against British taxation?
How was it based on Enlightenment principles?
In what ways is the Declaration of Independence based on John Locke’s Treatises on Government?