1. Bellwork Title the next section in your notes :
“ the Age of Enlightenment”
Define these terms in your notes(p354):
Constitutional monarchy
Social contract
Separation of powers

2. Philosophy and the Age of Enlightenment

3. ????????? What are some of the rules in your house?
Why do you have some of these rules?

4. Philosophy What is philosophy? Think
Ancient Greece/Rome (Classics/Stoicism)
Ancient Asia
Balance between faith and reason

5. Philosophy
A set of beliefs about how you should live your life, do your job, etc.

6. Age of Enlightenment
A time when reason was used to find truths about human nature

7. Reason
To think about facts clearly and make judgment

8. Philosophe
A philosopher who applied the scientific method to social problems
Observation
Hypothesis
Experiment
Conclusion

9. John Locke English Philosopher
Idea: People consent to be governed (ruled) in return for their protection and natural rights
Natural rights: people had the right to life, liberty and property
Impact: New governments were formed that got their power from the people who created the government. Protected individual life, liberty and the right to property
-think the U.S.A.

10. Voltaire French Philosopher
Ideas: People had the right to freedom of speech and people’s right to liberty
Liberty: to have the freedom to do what you want without having to ask for permission
Impact: People began to question the government and its practices
French revolution

11. Montesquieu French Philosopher
Idea: Separate the government into different sections, or branches, in order to keep one branch from becoming too powerful
Impact: This would become a part of the United States Constitution
Legislative
Judicial
Executive

12. Rousseau French Philosopher
Idea: Wanted democracy and peoples right to choose their government
Voting on leaders
No nobility
Impact: people began to question the power of the absolute ruler…or even to revolt
French revolution
Declaration of Independence

13. American Thinkers
Many American Colonialists studied the French Philosophes
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Believed that reason was the key to the understand of the world

14. Impact Revolution against absolute monarchs
French Revolution
American Revolution
Declaration of Independence
New documents that promised more personal freedoms
Constitution of the United States of America
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

15. Format a sheet titled: p359 answer these questions title your paper
When did Mary Wollstonecraft write a book?
What was the name of her book?
What was she fighting for in her book?
Format a sheet titled: p359 answer these questions title your paper