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    The Enlightenment was an 18th century intellectual movement that promoted reason, science, and intellectual freedom over tradition and religious authority. Enlightenment thinkers believed that reason could be used to gain knowledge about the natural world, determine human rights, and drive social and scientific progress. Some key ideas included deism, which believed God created the universe but did not intervene in it, and thinkers like John Locke who believed experience was the basis of knowledge. Prominent Enlightenment figures included Descartes, Newton, Locke, Franklin, Henry, Paine, and Jefferson who wrote works promoting political and religious freedom.

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    The Enlightenment was an 18th century intellectual movement that promoted reason, science, and intellectual freedom over tradition and religious authority. Enlightenment thinkers believed that reason could be used to gain knowledge about the natural world, determine human rights, and drive social and scientific progress. Some key ideas included deism, which believed God created the universe but did not intervene in it, and thinkers like John Locke who believed experience was the basis of knowledge. Prominent Enlightenment figures included Descartes, Newton, Locke, Franklin, Henry, Paine, and Jefferson who wrote works promoting political and religious freedom.

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    The 18th century philosophical movement in Europe and America, which emphasized intellectual freedom and reason over

    tradition, questioning of authority, and an empirical approach to science. Promoted a scientific approach to political and social issues

    Gave rise to a sense of human progress

    REASON
    The Enlightenment was also known as the Age of Reason.

    PEOPLE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT BELIEVED THEY COULD USE REASON TO

    discover the natural laws of the universe determine the natural rights of mankind promote unending progress in knowledge, technical achievement, & moral values

    REASON

    hey believed reason shows life as it is, whereas imagination shows life as people wish it were or fear it may be.

    eason can be used to combat ignorance, superstition and tyranny

    DEISM
    nlightenment thinking lead to Deism, a new religious philosophy eists believed in God as a great inventor or architect who had created the universe and then allowed it to function without divine intervention. eists believed in an after-life, but human achievement and happiness should be the focus of this life ather than focusing on God, the people

    FAMOUS ENLIGHTENMENT THINKERS

    Ren Descartes
    French Philosopher 1596 -1650 I think therefore I am Father of Modern Philosophy

    Sir Isaac Newton


    Mathematician/ Discoverer of gravity 1642 1727

    John Locke
    American Philosopher 1632 - 1704

    JOHN LOCKES IDEAS


    abla Rasathe mind is born a blank upon which all knowledge is inscribed in the form of human experience

    ttacked the divine right of kings

    evolution is not only a right but an obligation

    Benjamin Franklin Poor Richards Almanac 1706 - 1790

    BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (17061800)


    ever received a formal education

    as one of 17 children

    t 17 years old, traveled to Philadelphia and began producing Poor Richards Almanac

    nvented the lightning rod, bifocals, new type of stove & discovered

    BEN FRANKLINS WRITING

    e will read from The Autobiography, which he wrote for his son over a period of 19 years

    en Franklin was known for his aphorisms phorismis a short concise statement expressing a wise or clever observation or general truth *may contain rhymes or repeated sounds ranklin put an aphorism at

    He that lives upon hope will die fasting. God helps them that help themselves. A small leak will sink a great ship.

    APHORISMS

    Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

    Patrick Henry 1736 1799 Give me liberty or give me death.

    Thomas Paine 1737 - 1809 These are the times that try mens souls.

    THOMAS PAINE (17371809)

    onsidered to be the most effective American political writer of the Revolution

    hroughout the war, his pamphlets

    THOMAS PAINES WRITING


    ommon Sense (1776)a pamphlet in which he accused the English king of tyranny he Rights of Man (1792)supported the Revolutionary cause; was imprisoned for pleading against the execution of the overthrown French king he Age of Reason (1785)sharp attack

    Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. "

    THE LITERATURE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT


    entered around having a purpose: o instruct, enlighten and make people think as mostly nonfictionfact based rather than imaginative olitical, social & philosophical concerns were expressed in writing

    THE ENLIGHTENMENT MADE THE PENDULUM SWING!


    wing of the pendulum from God-centered life and concentration on the after-life to reason and the belief that man could know about his world

    here was no real unity of ideas, but there

    NOW YOU WILL


    ead the excerpt from Ben Franklins autobiography (in the text book on page 68.) n the left side of your notebook, list Ben Franklins 13 virtues. Next to each, write a sentence about whether or not you value

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