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THE ENLIGTENMENT

Explore the profound impact of Enlightenment ideas in the 1700s, from social contracts to separation of powers, Deism, liberty, and women's rights.

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THE ENLIGTENMENT

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  1. THE ENLIGTENMENT

  2. Enlightenment In the 1700’s W. European thinkers began to apply Rationality and Objectivity to Human Society

  3. Enlightenment • Salons- places where the nobility had parties w/ the Philosophers • Philosophes = Philosopher

  4. John Locke • Government is a deal (Social Contract) • All governments should provide “Life, Liberty, and Property” • Bad government should be overthrown

  5. John Locke • Second Treatise on Civil Government, 1690.

  6. LOCKE • “Rulers receive the right to govern from the people.” • “Men have not only a right to get out of a failed government, but to prevent it.”

  7. Montesquieu-Spirit of the Law • Separation of Powers • Legislature- makes laws • Executive- enforces laws • Judiciary-judges laws Checks and Balances

  8. MONTESQUIEU • “Again, there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.”

  9. VOLTAIRE • Reason • Deism: God is Nature • Freedom of Religion • Freedom of Speech, religion, reason, tolerance

  10. Letters Concerning the English Nation- 1726

  11. VOLTAIRE • “I disagree with what you say, however I shall defend to the death your right to say it.” • “All men should be treated as equals and have freedom of speech and the press.”

  12. Jean Jacques Rousseau • Civilization corrupts people’s natural goodness • Governments should rule by General Will • Democracy • The Social • Contract

  13. ROUSSEAU • “Through this Social Contract, man maintains as many of the freedoms he received from nature as possible.”

  14. Adam Smith • Laissez-Faire economics • “The invisible hand” • Capitalism • Supply and demand • The Wealth of Nations

  15. Adam Smith • “Without government inference] the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. “

  16. Mary Wollstonecraft Women’s Equality- A Vindication of the Rights of Women

  17. Mary Wollstonecraft • “To render [make] mankind more virtuous, and happier of course, both sexes must act from the same principle;… women must be allowed to found their virtue on knowledge, which is scarcely possible unless they be educated by the same pursuits [studies] as men”

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