1. The Enlightenment & Scientific Revolution

2. Age of Enlightenment
- aka (also known as)
Age of Reason
Enlightenment = rationality
ethics
knowledge
reform

3. The Scientific Revolution
= Ancient ideas of the church challenged by scholars
Many scholars persecuted by the Church
Copernicus (Sun not earth at center of universe)
Galileo Galiliei (Telescope, New theories on space)
Issac Newton (Gravity)

4. Church Monarch The Enlightenment Autonomous Rational Individual Before
Dependent
Church
Monarch
Before
After

5. The Enlightenment
= period of new ideas thoughts on government, the individual, and society
Thomas Hobbes
Social Contract = People must give up some of their rights to a strong ruler
People are born evil

6. The Enlightenment John Locke Baron de Montesquieu
People are born free & equal
Natural Rights (life, liberty, & property
Govt. must protect these rights
Baron de Montesquieu
Believed in the separation of power in government.
Should have checks and balances

7. The Enlightenment Jacques Rousseau Mary Wollstonecraft Voltaire
People are born free but society corrupts them
Mary Wollstonecraft
Equal rights for women / education
Voltaire
“I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”

9. How does the separation of government work in our country?