1. Causes & Effects of the Enlightenment

2. Essential Question: How does the Enlightenment still impact the world today? Write the black text, not the blue.

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4. Intellectual Roots of Scientific Revolution  Crusades > contact with Arab scientists  Renaissance > Greek scientific knowledge  Fascination with alchemy  Exploration of the World  Mechanics of Navigation  Curiosity about new species  Protestant Reformation lessens power of church over science.  decline in persecution of witchcraft

5. Deism  Belief in existence of God but rejection of established churches, basing one’s belief on light of nature and reason.  Deists believed that God’s work was revealed through science.

6. Characteristics of the Enlightenment  Rationalism  reason is arbiter of all things.  Cosmology  man & his place in the universe.  Secularism  application of the methods of science to religion & philosophy.  Utilitarianism  greatest good for greatest number.  Tolerance  No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

7.  Optimism  Man is intrinsically good.  social progress.  Freedom  Of thought and expression.  Equality  Education—Public Schools & lending libraries  Constitutions  listing rights.

8. Legacy of Enlightenment 1. Democratic revolutions: United States (1776) & France (1789) 2. Reform, democracy, and republicanism. 3. New forms of civil society –-- clubs, salons, lending libraries, & professional organizations. 4. Individual had come into existence as a political and social force to be reckoned with.