1. Thursday, October 4, 2012
Describe an experience in your life where you learned a valuable lesson. It can be a small moment, or a very BIG life lesson. What happened? Who was involved? Use vivid description! Who! What! Where! When! WHY!
At least five sentences!

2. Friday, October 5, 2012
Describe an experience in your life where you learned a lesson. It can be a small moment, or a very BIG life lesson. What happened? Who was involved? Use vivid description.
At least five sentences!

3. Literature of the enlightenment (ooooohhhh, Ahhhhh)

4. Enlightenment
The age of the Enlightenment is also known as the age of reason.
Two principal beliefs of those who lived during the Enlightenment:
*Through rational, logical thinking, human beings could probe the secrets of the universe and understand the true relationship between themselves and God.
*Many people came to believe that they could arrive at truth solely through human reason.

5. The Sun King
Where did he live?
King Louis the XIV
Versailles

6. Social classes
Upper
Lower

7. MathEmatics (EwW.) 1. René Descartes (1596–1650):
believed that the deductive method used in mathematics was the way to discover universal truths.
2. Sir Isaac Newton ( )
In Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687), he describes a clockwork universe governed by absolute laws that can be expressed mathematically.

8. Philosophy of Rationalism
It supported the idea that unchanging laws govern politics and morality.
Thomas Hobbes :
He advanced the social theory that people choose what is in their best interest. Hobbes argued that people’s common interests lead them to make a “social contract.” They accept their sovereign’s power over them in exchange for protection against their own greedy, evil nature.

9. Empiricist
Someone who believes that experience rather than logic is the only reliable source of knowledge.

10. His Philosphy: 3 Ideas…What Are They?
John lockE ( )
His Philosphy: 3 Ideas…What Are They?
“Tabula rasa”
Blank slate
Natural rights

11. Three men influenced by Johnny Locke…
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson

12. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
Humanity is naturally good but is corrupted by the environment, by education, and by government. He believed that governments must be subject to the will of the people.
Free Will!

13. Satire - The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) wrote shrewdly satiric fables. Molière (1622–1673) wrote satiric dramas exposing the greed, hypocrisy, and faults of French society. Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)- Gulliver’s Travels and “A Modest Proposal” reflect Swift’s bitter outrage at the corruption he saw.

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