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The Enlightenment Website Powerpoint
The Enlightenment Website Powerpoint
The Enlightenment Website Powerpoint
Vocabulary
Freedom of Speech- The right to
express yourself with limits.
Freedom of Religion- The right to
practice the religion of your choice.
Womens Speech- Rights that promote
equality between men and women.
Natural Rights- Life, Liberty and
Property.
Vocabulary
Enlightenment- a period during the 1600s
and 1700s in which educated Europeans
changed their outlook on life by seeing
reason as the key to human progress.
Why
is
it
important?
Many of our own ideas about government,
John Locke
Natural Rights
Life, Liberty and Property
People CAN improve themselves
Believes in democracy.
Montesquieu
Charles Louis de Secondat, the Baron de
Montesquieu- French Philosopher.
Voltaire
Published over 70 books, wrote letters and many
other publications.
Frequently vocalized his opinions and had many
enemies.
Freedom of Expression
Against Democracy
Jacques
Rousseau
SocialJean
Contractpeople being
governed and
government come together to create a
contract for society.
Thomas Hobbes
Learned about Galileo and other scientists and
was interested in their new thought processes.
He did not like science but wanted to see how
the new thought processes worked in politics
Believed in monarchs
Need a leader for direction.
If men are not naturally in a state of war,
why do they always carry arms and why do
they have keys to lock their doors?
Mary Wollstonecraft
Self-Educated woman.
Was born into a middle class family in England.
Mary was not the first woman to know women were not
equal to men. She would become the most famous though.
Womens rights
Women were completely controlled by men
Womens Rights
When others started to think while
using logic and reason theorist realized
gender roles did not make sense.