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The Enlightenment & Scientific Revolution

The Enlightenment & Scientific Revolution. Age of Enlightenment - aka (also known as) Age of Reason Enlightenment = rationality ethics knowledge reform. The Scientific Revolution. = Ancient ideas of the church challenged by scholars

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The Enlightenment & Scientific Revolution

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  1. The Enlightenment & Scientific Revolution

  2. Age of Enlightenment - aka (also known as) Age of Reason Enlightenment = rationality ethics knowledge reform

  3. The Scientific Revolution • = Ancient ideas of the church challenged by scholars • Many scholars persecuted by the Church • Copernicus (Sun not earth at center of universe) • Galileo Galiliei (Telescope, New theories on space) • Issac Newton (Gravity)

  4. After Before Church Monarch Autonomous Rational Individual Dependent Individual The Enlightenment

  5. The Enlightenment • = period of new ideas thoughts on government, the individual, and society • Thomas Hobbes • Social Contract = People must give up some of their rights to a strong ruler • People are born evil

  6. The Enlightenment • John Locke • People are born free & equal • Natural Rights (life, liberty, & property • Govt. must protect these rights • Baron de Montesquieu • Believed in the seperation of power in govt. • Should have checks and balances

  7. The Enlightenment • Jacques Rousseau • People are born free but society corrupts them • Mary Wollstonecraft • Equal rights for women / education • Voltaire • “I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”

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