1. The Enlightenment

2. What does Enlightenment mean?
An intellectual movement that stresses reason and thought.
The Enlightenment will also be geared for individuals to solve problems.
Will also be known as the Age of Reason .

3. Main Idea’s
Will cover, challenge and bring new insight in four categories:
Government
Religion
Economics
Education

4. Key Players Some of the key people during the Enlightenment were
Thomas Hobbs
John Locke
Francois Marie Arouet aka Voltaire
Baron de Montesquieu
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Cesare Bonesana Beccaria

5. Philosophes
This is the term for all of these key players or social critics during the Enlightenment.
Applied reason to all aspects of life.
They had five concepts for their core of beliefs
Reason
Nature
Happiness
Progress
Liberty

6. Key Player Thomas Hobbs A English political thinker Social Contract
Believed in a ruler having total power.

7. Key Player John Locke A English political thinker Natural Rights
All people born free and equal

8. Key Player Francois Marie Arouet aka Voltaire
Fought for tolerance, reason, freedom of religious belief and freedom of speech.

9. Key Player Baron de Montesquieu Separation of Power
Checks and Balances

10. Key Player
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Individual freedom
Direct Democracy

11. Key Player
Cesare Bonesana Beccaria
Justice System

12. Women during the Enlightenment
Mary Wollstonecraft
Published an Essay for women's rights
Mary Astell
Strived for better education for women
Emilie du Chatelet
Translated Isaac Newton’s work

13. Long lasting effects of the Enlightenment
The Enlightenment will have three lasting legacies the first of which will bring about a more democratic style of government.

14. Long term effects continued
The Enlightenment will also influence people to have a more secular or non-religious attitude in their life.

15. A little more…
Finally the Enlightenment will influence people to have more faith in themselves and their own abilities.

16. Question of the Day
How would you compare the Scientific revolution to the Enlightenment?