Age of Reason

1600-1700

Ch. 6.2

Pgs.195-200

Objectives

1. What was Locke’s revolutionary

philosophy?

2. What is the separation of powers?

SETTING THE STAGE

Enlightenment: Intellectual movement where principles of reason and science are applied to: 1. Govt.

2. Religion

3. Economics

4. Education

Establishes the foundation for the birth of modern democracy

2 Schools of Approaching Knowledge

Rationalism- logic and reason without formal experimentation

• Rene Descartes

Empiricism- results by scientific method only

• Francis Bacon

Rene Descartes – Father of the

Enlightenment

Philosophes:

social critics

Developed ideas, theories in solons

not revolutionaries, but the first thinkers

3 Long Term Effects 1. Belief in progress of

society through reason

The French Philosophes (ers)

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

1717-1783

Enlightenment’s 3 Long-term

Effects

1. Belief in Progress

• Scientific revolution and its success

provides confidence that human reason

could solve societal problems

2. Secular (non religious, God-out) outlook

• Mysteries of the universe can now be solved

by science.

Scientific revolution provides physical

explanations for so called miraculous

explanations

• Voltaire and others openly criticized

organized religion

Sought tolerance of all religions

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Advocate of individualism

Social Contract: an

agreement among

free individuals to

create a govt.; a

society that responds

to the peoples will

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1712-1778

Legacy Enlightenment challenged:

1. Divine right of kings

2. Union of Church and State

3. Social Inequality

Individualism

Establishes the foundation for the:

1. American Rev. &

2. French Rev.

Burger King

“You can have it your way”

-Burger King

Exit Ticket…ET After notes

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Workbook

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CH. 6 Sec. 2,

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