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Enlightenment HW Takeup

Enlightenment HW Takeup. CHY4U. In what way were philosophes similar to humanists?. Match. New Key Enlightened Words. I N L S M E S. Political = Enlightened Despots. constitutional absolute monarchy monarchy Where would you place enlightened despotism?.

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Enlightenment HW Takeup

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  1. Enlightenment HW Takeup CHY4U

  2. In what way were philosophes similar to humanists?

  3. Match

  4. New Key Enlightened Words • I • N L • S M • E • S

  5. Political = Enlightened Despots constitutionalabsolute monarchymonarchy Where would you place enlightened despotism?

  6. Characteristics of En. Despots Centralization of the state • But the ruler is NOT above the state, like Louis XIV (the state is me) Extension of citizenship • Rights Tolerant • State above church • Secular Economically mercantilist • Encourage exports • independence

  7. Despotic Words • Control • Force • Intimidate • Intolerance

  8. Rousseau Was Different

  9. Enlightened PSD Analysis • If Diderot’s “Intolerance” were your PSD excerpt, what would you have to research (1 or 2 sources) in order to answer the contextualizing questions? • the Catholic Church in France in the mid-1700s • How would you answer the question of how it extends your understanding of the topic?

  10. PSD Excerpts • Frederick the Great and Catherine the Great = enlightened despots from Prussia and Russia, respectively. • Rousseau = sort of a philosophe. • Thomas Paine = a British pamphlet writer who came to the American colonies in the 1770s while they were having trouble with their mother country (Britain) and urged them to seek independence (a divorce from mom). Sarcastic language. • Thomas Jefferson = enlightened American writer, statesman, who had read Locke and wrote the document that officially said the colonies want a divorce from their mom (Britain). • Jonathan Swift = Irish writer in sympathy with Catholic Irish people who were being oppressed by Protestant British rule. • Adam Smith = enlightened British economist who wrote about laissez-faire, not mercantilism, being the way natural law works in the economy.

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