1. The Enlightenment
(Mr. Edsall’s favorite thing about history because it can relate to EVERYTHING.) It is the Kevin Bacon of AP European History

2. Paths to Enlightenment
Popularization of Science
Skepticism (and toleration)
Travel Literature
“Noble Savage” Leads to the “nature of man”

3. Suggested Note taking graphic organizer
Name
Book
Nature of Man
Theory
Suggested Note taking graphic organizer

4. Let’s practice with something you are familiar with…

5. Newton’s Legacy
Laws of Nature

6. Locke Quick Review: Background to Locke’s Ideas His Theory
Nature of Man
Purpose of Government

7. Hobbes Quick Review: Background to Hobbe’s Ideas His Theory
Nature of Man
Purpose of Government

8. Montesquieu Spirit of Laws
Nature of man: Mainly good but could be corrupted by Greed
Solution: Purpose of Government should be to separate power and check that power

9. Voltaire Candide Nature of Man: “all men are brothers under God”
Theories:
Religious Toleration
Deism

10. Diderot
Encyclopedia
Nature of Man: Christianity was fanatical and unreasonable. Viewed world as a mass of molecules
Theory: Create one location to find major ideas of the time to fight ignorance and superstition

11. David Hume Treatise on Human Nature
Possible to view man as a “Science of Man”

12. Adam Smith
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations or Wealth of Nations for short
“Invisible Hand”
Laissez Faire
Economic Liberalism
Father of Capitalism

13. Jean Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract
Entire society agrees to be governed by its general will
Man forced to be free
Government a necessary evil

14. Philosophes’ Ideas through images