1. 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

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

3. 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

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

5. 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

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

7. 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

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

9. 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

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

11. 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

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

13. 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

14. 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