1. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Enlightenment Philosophy

2. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Explain how science led to the Enlightenment. Compare the ideas of Hobbes and Locke. Identify the beliefs and contributions of the philosophes. Summarize how economic thinking changed during this time. Objectives

3. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. Terms and People natural law – rules discoverable by reason Thomas Hobbes – seventeenth-century thinker who wrote Leviathan John Locke – seventeenth-century thinker who wrote Two Treatises of Government

4. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. The spread of Enlightenment philosophers’ ideas sparked changes in governments and society throughout Europe. Encouraged by ideas such as natural law and social contracts, people challenged the structure of governments and society in existence since the Middle Ages. What effects did the Enlightenment philosophers have on government and society?

5. TEKS 8C: Calculate percent composition and empirical and molecular formulas. By the early 1700s, European thinkers felt that nothing was beyond the reach of the human mind. The discoveries of the Scientific Revolution of the 1500s and 1600s convinced educated Europeans of the power of human reason. Natural law governed forces such as gravity and magnetism.