1. The Enlightenment

2. Age of Reason
Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment
Classical Music

3. Intellectual Roots of Scientific Revolution
Crusades > contact with Arab scientists
Renaissance > Greek scientific knowledge
Fascination with alchemy
Exploration of the World
Mechanics of Navigation
Curiosity about new species
Protestant Reformation lessens power of church over science.
decline in persecution of witchcraft

4. Enlightenment Philosophy

5. Deism
Belief in existence of God but rejection of established churches, basing one’s belief on light of nature and reason.
Deists believed that God’s work was revealed through science.

6. Characteristics of the Enlightenment
Rationalism  reason is arbiter of all things.
Cosmology  man & his place in the universe.
Secularism  application of the methods of science to religion & philosophy.
Utilitarianism  greatest good for greatest number.
Tolerance  No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

7. Optimism Freedom Education Constitutions Man is intrinsically good.
social progress.
Freedom
Of thought and expression.
Liberty to all men
Education
Constitutions
 listing rights.

8. Philosopher of the Day
Thomas Hobbes