3. Causes…? Scientific Revolution? (Mid 1500s)
Careful observation and a willingness to question accepted beliefs
Renaissance? ( )
Humanism – human potential and achievements
Secular – worldly
Absolutism
People didn’t have much power or say
English Civil War

4. The Start….. The Enlightenment reached its height in France
Paris became the meeting place to discuss ideas
Philosophes – social critics during the Enlightenment; French
Salons – a social gathering of intellectuals and artists

5. Main beliefs during Enlightenment
Reason
truth could be discovered through reason or logical thinking
Nature
what was natural was also good and reasonable
Happiness
urged people to seek well-being on earth
Progress
society and humankind could improve
Liberty
Called for liberties that the English people had won

6. Francois Marie Arouet

8. Submit to the general will; people were happy and had natural rights; from switzerland; government’s job to carry out the majority;

9. Social Contract What does this do? What happens if you don’t?
Agreement by which people define and limit their individual rights, thus creating an organized society or govt.