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Enlightenment

Old Views

  1. The Earth is flat.

  2. Slavery is okay.

  3. If something falls it's because God made it fall.

New Views

  1. The Earth is round.

  2. Slavery is not okay.

  3. If something falls it's because of gravity.

Thomas Hobbs

John Locke

Ceasare Beccaria

Baron de 

Montesquieu

Big Ideas:

Believed in absolutism and that all humans were selfish and wicked.

Believed that people were reasonably selfish and that we have natural rights.

Believed laws existed to protect the people, the accused should have a speedy trial, torture should not be used, and the death penalty should be abolished.

Believed the government should be seperated into three branches called the seperation of powers.

  1. A right that I thinks is essential to a successful society is freedom of speeech and religious beliefs.

  2. I believe that natural rights are also essential to a successful society.

  3. Equality in men and women is very essential to make a successful society.

Big Ideas:

Jean-Jacques

Benjamin

Voltaire

Rousseau

Franklin

Thomas

Jefferson

Believed direct democracy was the best form of government.He said that people were born good but easily corrupted.

Proved lightening produced electricty. He worked hard to make his ctiy a better place.

Believed in tolerance and reason and that people should have the freedom of religious beliefs and speech.

Mary

Wollstonecraft

Adam Smith

Father 

Hidalgo

Simon

Bolivar

Believed that women should be equally as educated as men and that women should enter professions as men do.

Wrote a book on wealth of nations. Believed that self-intrest guides the most efficent use of resources.

Believed in a strong central central government. Thought that the political power should be divided into different branches.

Big Ideas:

3 rights I think are essential to a successful society

Believed people had natural rights and we are all equal and he made the Declaration of Independence.

Fought for Mexican independence and questioned many of the policies of his own church.

Vocabulary
Our Definition
Actual defintion

  1. Enlightenment

  2. Philosophe

  3. Natural Rights

  4. Absolutism

  5. Liberty

  6. Deism

  1. The act of enlightening or the state of being enlightened.

  2. Intellectuals who appiled reason to the study of many areas of learning, including philosophy, history, economics, and social issues.

  3. Life, liberty, and the pursiut to happiness.

  4. The priniple or the exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government.

  5. Freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.

  6. Belied in the existence of a God on the evidence of the reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation.

  1. The age of logic and reason; to have a better understanding of something.

  2. Thinkers that studied and questioned human society.

  3. The freedom of life.

  4. Total power or control over people.

  5. Freedom from a higher authority.

  6. The belief in God.

Thomas Hobbs

John Locke

Ceasare Beccaria

Baron de 

Montesquieu

Ideas that affected todat's society:

His ideas influenced the federalists in arguments to adopt the Consititution.

He believed in religious toleration which is in our Constitution.

In our Constitution and the Bill of Rights there is the right to speedy trial, and the right against unusual punishment.

The U.S. Constitution and the way the founders envisioned a plan that would divide and balance the powers of the new government in 3 seperate branches.

Ideas that affected today's society:

Jean-Jacques

Benjamin

Voltaire

Rousseau

Franklin

Thomas

Jefferson

He impacted governments around the world with his idea of the social contract and the importance of individual freedoms.

Some of his inventions are bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, fins, lightening rods, glass armonica, flexible uninary catheter, and odometer.

His most important idea is his belief in religious freedom from government sponsered religion infulenced the first Amendment to the Constitution.

Mary

Wollstonecraft

Adam Smith

Father 

Hidalgo

Simon

Bolivar

Wollstone raised arguents in suppot of women's rights. Her work in pursuit of equality for women led to her become the founder of the Brittish Women's Rights Movement.

Adam Smith provided a map to the mysteries of the U.S. market he reffered to it as "system of perfect liberty."

Bolivar participated in the foundation of the first union of independent nations in Hispanic-America and he helped lay the foundations for democratic ideology in much of Latin America.

Ideas that affectd today's society:

In the Delcaration her formulated the founding aspiration of America and what remains its best self: "We hold these thruths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."

He demanded Mexico's independence from the Spanish crown El Cura Hidalgo.

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