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The Enlightenment. 1650ish-1800. Essential Questions:. Who should govern a nation? How powerful/pervasive should that force of government be? What’s the role of religion in society? Should religion have a place in government? How important is science to society?. Causes. Middle Ages.
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The Enlightenment 1650ish-1800
Essential Questions: • Who should govern a nation? • How powerful/pervasive should that force of government be? • What’s the role of religion in society? • Should religion have a place in government? • How important is science to society?
Middle Ages • Europe: Feudalistic society • Kings had divine right to rule • No way to break free from the hierarchy—constraining
Renaissance Humanism • People are capable of thinking for themselves. • Individual Education (Humanities: grammar, rhetoric, Greek, history, moral philosophy, poetry) Erasmus, Holbein
Later Issues (15-1700s) • Absolute monarchs • Government out of touch with its constituents • Nearly impossible to advance socially (no rags to riches) • Aristocracy became ruling class with advent of parliamentary systems of gov’t Louis XIV (1638-1715)
“L’état, c’estmoi.” “The state is me,” Louis XIV
The Three Estates, France • 17th century • First estate: Louis XVI and clerics, most resources. Did not pay taxes. • Second estate: Noblemen and women, self-centered. Did not pay taxes. • Third estate (largest): Workers, artisans, etc. Did most of the work. Tax burden fell exclusively on them. No representation.
The Enlightenment • Occurred between approximate years of 1650s-1800 • Explosion in radical thought about organization of society and purpose of government • Value of Experimenting • Oxygen was named during this time period as was the idea of the element. • Lack of care for national borders • Philosophes • Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Montesquieu
Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679 • Absolutist • Leviathan (1651) • All individuals are naturally equal, but… • Leviathan=sea monster that devoured ships…used here as a symbol for the government., created to impose order
John Locke, 1632-1704 • Tabula Rasa: blank slate • Importance of environment and reason vs. heredity and faith • No “divine right” • Man has natural rights: • Life • Liberty • Property • Gov’t that doesn’t approve should be abolished.
Baron de Montesquieu, 1689-1755 • Believed in three branches of government with checks and balances
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778 • Wrote about distaste for political and economic oppression • Good of the community > the individual • Government determined by its citizens
Exit Ticket • On your index card: • Briefly compare the Three Estates with the Middle Ages. • What is one of the Enlightenment’s essential questions? • What are philosophes? Name at least one. • Make sure you include your name.
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