1. THE ENLIGTENMENT AND AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1700-1800
Section One: Philosophy in the Age of Reason

2. CHANGING EUROPE Crusades 1100-1300 Black Death 1351
Renaissance
Reformation
Scientific Revolution
Printing Press

18. Enlightenment
In the 1700’s W. European thinkers began to apply Rationality and Objectivity to Human Society
Philosophes = Philosopher

19. Enlightenment
Salons- places where the nobility had parties w/ the Philosophers
Paris was the center of early Enlightenment ideas

22. Enlightenment Concepts
Rationality
Freedom of Thought
Natural Law
Human Society could and should improve

24. Enlightenment Economics
Physiocrats reject mercantilism
Laissez faire
Adam Smith- The Wealth of Nations

25. Society/Arts Natural Law- Deism= God is Nature Freedom of Religion
Voltaire & Freedom of Speech, religion, reason, tolerance

28. Political Enlightenment
Thomas Hobbes-social contract
Human life was “nasty, brutish, & short”
Leviathan

30. John Locke Social Contract- Government is a deal
All governments should provide “Life, Liberty, and Property”
Bad government should be overthrown

31. Montesquieu-Spirit of the Law
Separation of Powers
Legislature- makes laws
Executive- enforces laws
Judiciary-judges laws Checks and Balances

33. Jean Jacques Rousseau
Civilization corrupts people’s natural goodness
Governments should rule by General Will
Democracy
All men are
created equal

34. Denis Diderot
Amass the world’ knowledge
Encyclopedia

37. Adam Smith Laissez-Faire economics Capitalism Supply and demand
The Wealth of Nations

38. Mary Wollstonecraft Women’s Equality-
A Vindication of the Rights of Women