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The 18th Century Enlightenment

The 18th Century Enlightenment. By: Luke Robbins, Isabel Leonard, and Sydney Weisbach. TIMELINE. ENLIGHTENMENT.

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The 18th Century Enlightenment

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  1. The 18th Century Enlightenment By: Luke Robbins, Isabel Leonard, and Sydney Weisbach

  2. TIMELINE

  3. ENLIGHTENMENT A philosophical movement of the 18th century that emphasized the use of reason to scrutinize previously accepted doctrines and traditions and that brought about many humanitarian reforms.

  4. Philosophes • Started in France • Began in 1656 • Intellectual thinkers that began to push people to think not of religion and superstition to rational thinking and questioning • Theory of Progress

  5. John Locke • Two Treatises of Government • Natural Laws • Essay Concerning Human Understanding • Political Philosopher John Locke What he did, his effect on the enlightenment Things that influenced the enlightenment (did john locke invent natural law? Or Im not sure) .

  6. Beginning of The Enlightenment • Essay on Tolerance • The Glorious Revolution • William III and Mary II

  7. Francois-Marie Arouet • Pen name is Voltaire • Individual Freedom • Against the Roman Catholic church and Christianity Voltaire Basically anything significant about him because he is like very important and stuff

  8. Baron De Montesquieu • L’Esprit de Lois (1748) • Letters Persanes (Persian Letters) Baron De montesquie His ideas and the revolution List of his works

  9. Jean- Jaque Rousseau • Political Equality • The Social Contract • Popular Sovereignty/ Sovereignty

  10. Adam Smith • Wealth of Nations • Laws of Supply and Demand

  11. Mary Astell Her Howshe influenced the Enlightenment Effect on society Mary Astell • Enlightenment Feminist • A Serious Proposal to The Ladies Part I and II

  12. Mary Wollstonecraft • Philosopher and Feminist • A Vindication of Women’s Rights

  13. Deism • The belief, based solely on reason, in a God who created the universe and then abandoned it, assuming no control over life, exerting no influence on natural phenomena, and giving no supernatural revelation.

  14. The Enlightenment Today

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