1. The Age of Enlightenment
Unit 6

2. What is The Enlightenment?
An intellectual movement centered in France in which the new rational ways of thinking about the physical world were applied to the world of society (government)

3. Where did they meet?
Salons, coffee shops, letters

4. What’s the big deal?
Enlightenment ideas influenced the leaders of the American Revolution and the writing of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights
Fueled revolution in the Americas and France

5. Les Philosophes

6. Thomas Hobbes Leviathan “state of nature”
Consent of the governed for protection

7. John Locke The Second Treatise on Government
Inalienable rights
“Essay Concerning Human Understanding”
Tabula Rasa

8. Baron de Montesquieu The Spirit of the Laws Separation of powers
Checks and balances

9. Voltaire
Candide
Civil liberties
Freedom of speech,
press, religion

10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract
Social Contract Theory
Popular sovereignty

11. Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations
Free market

12. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

13. Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
Olympe de Gouges
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen

14. Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence

15. Rene Descartes
“Cartesian philosophy”

16. Denis Diderot
The Encyclopedia

17. David Hume
A Treatise of Human Nature

18. Le Solon de Deux-cent-dix
Next week, we will host our own Enlightenment “solon.” We will sit and converse with one another about philosophy, truth, and the meaning of life.
You will each play the role of one philosophe
To prepare…you will need to research!

19. How do I research?
You will draw a philosophe at random…I will give you time to trade if there is MUTUAL agreement
Use the research guide and your partner to help you.

20. What is the format of the solon?
It is a mystery!
You will be given some discussion questions and you will make-up some discussion questions on your own (based on what your philosophe would want to discuss)