1. Discuss how the Enlightenment thinkers influenced the world

2. Video

3. Enlightenment Roots Traced back to the Greeks and romans
Gained knowledge through observation, logic, and reasoning
Believed in the worth of the individual
Renaissance and Reformation stress the individual
Equality key feature of the Enlightenment

4. JOHN LOCKE English philosopher
Did not oppose monarchies: disagreed on the divine right of a king
Power of the government comes from the people not God or ruler
People give their consent to be governed
Governments job is to protect the people, if fails the people have the right to change the government
NATURAL RIGHTS: people are born with rights that can not be taken away
Life, liberty and property

5. JOHN LOCKE
Video

7. PHILOSPHES/ PHILOSOPHERS
BELIEVE THAT REASON COULD SOLVE EVERY PROBLEM AND THAT SOCIETY CAN PROGRESS
CHALLENGED OLD BELIEFS ABOUT POWER
CHURCH AND ABSOLUTE MONARCHS FEEL THREATENED
TRIED TO SILENCE THE PHILOSPHIES

8. VOLTAIRE Believed in freedom of speech and liberty
Francois Marie Aroquet: Voltaire
Wrote more then 70 books
Spoke out against religious intolerance and against superstition in the Church
Was put in jail for his writings, forced to leave France
Believed in freedom of speech and liberty

10. Video on Montequieu

11. WHAT DID MONTESQUIEU MEAN WHEN HE SAID

12. MONTESQUIEU The Baron de Montesquieu
Believed liberty was a natural right
Opposed absolute monarchs
Feared the government could become too powerful
Wanted separation of power in government
3 branches, laws, enforce, interpret
checks and balances
Basis of U.S. Constitution

13. SEPERATION OF POWER

14. ROUSSEAU Jean Jacques Rousseau Wrote the book The Social Contract
Democracy was the best form of government
People should create a government that will defend individual rights and protect the good of the whole
Believed in votes
Opposed absolute monarchs, titles and nobility
Believed people were created equal
His ideas caused revolt

16. ROUSSEAU
Video on Rousseau

17. WOMEN IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Wealthy woman hosted salons
Thinkers and artists participated
Discussed and exchanged ideas on a equal basis
Salons provided an education for woman

18. Marie Therese Rodet Geoffrin
Most admired of the salon hostesses
Most guest were nobility some not
Foreigners invited brought new ideas
Discussion were written up and published in newspapers for the general public
Enlightenment ideas were spread through the salons

19. Judith Sargent Murray 1784 in America
Wrote that women that are deprived of education thought poorly of themselves

20. MARY ASTELL
1964
Focused on social issues
Lack of education for women

21. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
1792 published A vindication of the Rights of Woman
Argued well educated woman would help create enlightened families
Public life would become strengthened through enlightened families