2. Enlightenment and American Revolution
Beginning of the Enlightenment
Conflicting views: Hobbes vs. Locke
The Philosphes
New economic thinking
Enlightenment and American Revolution
17.1 – 17.2 – The Age of Reason

3. What is the Enlightenment? (HA! book 35.2)
Is it easier to complain, or come up with new ideas to fix a situation?
Warm-Up Question:
What do dislike about LCHS?
What suggestions do you have to make this school better?
42c - identify the major ideas of the Enlightenment from the writings of Locke, Voltaire and Rousseau and their relationship to politics and society
43a - identify the causes and results of the revolutions in England (1689), United States (1776), France (1789), Haiti (1791), and Latin America ( )
43b - explain Napoleon's rise to power, defeat, and consequences for Europe
What is the Enlightenment? (HA! book 35.2)
Connect to Sci Rev, Renaissance, Prot Ref
Conflict with old ideas, esp. kings & church
Enlightenment Thinkers
Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, (Beccaria??) Use ISN pg (notes then questions to answer??)
Matching Enlightenment thinkers w/ quotes (HA! 35 activity pg )
Impact of Enlightenment (HA! book )
Enlightened Despots, women, music, economics, foreshadow political revolutions
Activity

4. and everywhere he is in chains.”
“Man is born free,
and everywhere he is in chains.”
- Rousseau
What does this mean, and how did ideas like this start a democratic revolution around the world?

5. IDEAS ARE GREAT, WAR IS VIOLENT
If great ideas lead to violence, then are the ideas truly great?

6. During the Renaissance, people began to question medieval ideas, emphasize individual potential (humanism), & encourage education
During the Age of Exploration, the discovery of new lands & trade routes led Europeans to search for other “new” things
During the Protestant Reformation, people began to question church teachings, freely explore new ideas, & tolerate other religions
During the Age of Absolute Monarchs, powerful kings spent lavishly, fought expensive wars, & ruled without regard to their nation’s people
The Philosophes Advocate Reason
The Enlightenment reached its height in France in the mid-1700s. Paris became the meeting place for people who wanted to discuss politics and ideas. The social critics of this period in France were known as philosophes (FIHL•uh•SAHFS), the French word for philosophers. The philosophes believed that people could apply reason to all aspects of life, just as Isaac Newton had applied reason to
science. Five concepts formed the core of their beliefs:
Reason
Enlightened thinkers believed truth could be discovered through reason or logical thinking.
2. Nature
The philosophes believed that what was natural was also good and reasonable.
3. Happiness
The philosophes rejected the medieval notion that people should find joy in the hereafter and urged people to seek well-being on earth.
4. Progress
The philosophes stressed that society and humankind could improve.
5. Liberty
The philosophes called for the liberties that the English people had won in their Glorious Revolution and Bill of Rights.

7. The Scientific Revolution of 1500’s and 1600’s transformed the way people in Europe looked at the world.
Galileo, Copernicus, Newton created machines and theories that educated people of the power of human Reason.
A Belief that natural law, or rules discoverable by reason, governed scientific forces was beginning to be applied to other ideas.

8. During the Scientific Revolution, scholars applied logic, perfected the scientific method, & made new discoveries that shattered old ideas…

9. i. BEGINNING OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT
From 1650 to 1800, European philosophers began rethinking old ideas about government, religion, and economics
which led to an era known as the Enlightenment (also called the Age of Reason)
In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, and the new ways of thinking it prompted, scholars and philosophers began to reevaluate old notions about other aspects of society. They sought new insight into the underlying beliefs regarding government, religion, economics, and education. Their
efforts spurred the Enlightenment, a new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems. Known also as the Age of Reason, the movement reached its height in the mid-1700s and brought great change to many aspects of Western civilization.

10. II. CONFLICTING VIEWS: HOBBES vs. LOCKE
“It is not Wisdom, but authority that makes Law.”
- Thomas Hobbes
THOMAS HOBBES
JOHN LOCKE

11. Protected from themselves
II. CONFLICTING VIEWS: HOBBES vs. LOCKE
1. thomas hobbes
What kind of government do you think I like?
One of the first political thinkers of the was
Enlightenment
Thomas Hobbes
Hobbes was bothered by the English Civil War & chaos that plagued after the beheading of King Charles I
England
Hobbes believed that humans are naturally , , & hungry for power; Hobbes argued that people need to be
Cruel
selfish
MONARCHY!
Protected from themselves

12. What do you think about that?
II. CONFLICTING VIEWS: HOBBES vs. LOCKE
1. thomas hobbes
The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.
Hobbes supported rule by
He used scientific reasoning to argue that only kings with absolute power could order in
absolute
monarchy
maintain
Society
What do you think about that?
Hobbes believed in an idea called the : people give up power & rights to a king who provides &
Wrote arguing that people without laws would be chaos
Social Contract
Law
order
Leviathan

13. Violate peoples’ rights
II. CONFLICTING VIEWS: HOBBES vs. LOCKE
2. John Locke
“People are basically reasonable and moral.”
English
philosopher John Locke disagreed with the ideas of
“What type of Government do you think I supported?”
Hobbes
He was influenced by the when the Bill of Rights was created to protect
Glorious Revolution
Citizens' rights
Locke believed that people are born with , including Locke argued that kings could (and should) be if they
Natural rights
Life, liberty property
overthrown
Violate peoples’ rights

14. II. CONFLICTING VIEWS: HOBBES vs. LOCKE
2. John Locke
limited
Locke supported or monarchies
constitutional
Locke believed that government power came the consent of the governed (approval of the people) & that kings should the rights of the people
from
protect
Two Treatises on
Wrote – arguing that governments were supposed to protect the rights of the people.
Government

15. II. CONFLICTING VIEWS: HOBBES vs. LOCKE
2. John Locke
Locke’s ideas would influence the
American Revolution
and James echoed his ideas.
Ben Franklin, Thomas
Jefferson
Madison
Locke’s idea of the right of would persuade America, France and many Latin American countries to
revolution
rebel

16. Quick Writing Prompt: Who’s ideas are right: Hobbes or Locke?
People are naturally selfish & act out of self-interest
Without gov’t control, society would be chaotic
People are like children & need a strong “father” to keep them in line
Locke
People are reasonable & able to make decisions
Freedom & liberty are more important than order & safety
People should be able to overthrow kings who abuse their power
This would mean that people should have an input in their government.
This would mean that a Monarchy or strong leader.
write ½ a page on why america should follow this philosophy