1. “Siecle de Lumiere” “The Century of Light”
The Enlightenment
“Siecle de Lumiere”
“The Century of Light”

2. Good Aftermoon
Log onto website- Period Two-- Scientific Rev. & Enlightenment - What is Enlightenment?
Read What is Enlightenment? By Immanuel Kant

3. EQ: How did this new world view affect the way people thought about society?

4. WHAT WAS THE ENLIGHTENMENT?
“Loosely united by certain key ideas, the European Enlightenment was a broad intellectual and cultural movement that gained strength gradually and did not reach its maturity until about 1750.” – McKay
Immanuel Kant ( )
German Philosopher
What is the Enlightenment? (1784)
“Dare to know”
“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.”

5. What was the Enlightenment?
Enlightenment – a cultural movement of intellectuals beginning in late 17th and 18th century Europe emphasizing reason & individualism rather than tradition
Philosophe – people who were looking to reform society along the lines of reason and logic
Centered in PARIS (France)

6. Key Ideas
Reason
Humans should figure problems out rather than depend on miracles
Nature and Natural Laws
Natural laws regulate both the universe and human society
Happiness
People don’t have to be miserable in this life to be “holy”…they have a right to happiness
Distrust of Tradition and Revealed Religion
Scientific method could be applied to society as well
Society can get better as risks are taken
Man is naturally good
Good life is on earth

7. And Some More Key Ideas Progress
Discoveries and advances in government, economics, and sciences can make life better
Liberty
People should live in societies with little restrictions of speech, religion, and trade
Toleration
People should accept others’ differences

8. THEMES SOCIAL POLITICAL RELGIOUS INTELLECTUAL TECHNOLOGICAL ECONOMIC
Increase in literacy Reform Deism Age of Reason Printing Press Mercantilism to Capitalism
SOCIAL
POLITICAL
RELGIOUS
INTELLECTUAL
TECHNOLOGICAL
ECONOMIC

9. ENLIGHTENED INDIVIDUALS
Philosophes – students of society who were concerned with progress and reform
Intellectual theorists
Applied reason to ALL aspects of society: religion, politics, science, history, economy
Rousseau wrote a novel, opera, autobiography, constitution for Poland, treatise on education, analysis of theater on morals
Free thought and social reform

10. An Attack on the Old Regime

11. A. The World of the Old Regime
Built on tradition
World of hierarchy, privilege and inequality
Allied with the Church
Challenged by the reform impulse of supporters of the Enlightenment

12. The Philosophes 18th century French intellectuals
Interest in addressing a broad audience
Committed to reform
Celebrated the scientific revolution
The “Mystique of Newton”
Science applied to society

13. Famous Enlightenment Thinkers

14. Thomas Hobbes The Older, Cranky Guy Who Doesn’t Fit In

15. John Locke You’re welcome, America

16. Voltaire The Smart “Donkey”

17. Jean Jacques Rousseau The Hippie

18. Baron de Montesquieu The Turtle

19. Immanuel Kant The German

20. Cesare di Beccaria The Kind Heart

21. Denis Diderot The Nerd

22. We will be split up in 8 different groups
Assignment
We will be split up in 8 different groups
Each group will be assigned one Enlightenment philosophe
You will create one quick poster of your philosophe with the following information:
Contributions
Views/beliefs
Famous books & quotes
Picture Meme to help us remember the philosophe
We will have a gallery walk tomorrow