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What is the Enlightenment?

Loosely affiliated movement of writers, artists, thinkers, and scientists, that affected aspects of life in Europe and the colonies c. 1650-1800. What is the Enlightenment?. The Age of Enlightenment . Logic and Reason ( common sense)

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What is the Enlightenment?

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  1. Loosely affiliated movement of writers, artists, thinkers, and scientists, that affected aspects of life in Europe and the colonies • c. 1650-1800 What is the Enlightenment?

  2. The Age of Enlightenment

  3. Logic and Reason (common sense) • Empiricism (Evidence-based thought) and the Scientific Method • Personal Freedom and Self-Governance • Free Exchange of Ideas, and the exploration of the logical, mathematical, or political Laws that govern the Universe. • Inspired by Democratic and Republican societies of ancient Greece and Rome, and the scientific and philosophical exploration that took place in them. Basic Enlightenment Values

  4. Superstitions • Religious traditions and dogma • Some social and class traditions and structure • Monarchies, aristocracy, and hereditary governments The Enlightenment Reacted Against….

  5. Rene Descartes

  6. Isaac Newton

  7. Voltaire

  8. John Locke

  9. Adam Smith

  10. American Enlightenment

  11. In the American Revolution

  12. In the American Revolution

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