The Enlightenment

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Aristotle

"Looked at the nature of the world and human belief used thought and knowledge."

J.J Rousseau

"man is a noble savage"

Socrates

He wrote a book called the Apology

Social Contact

It's like common sense

Who is one of the 5 main Enlightenment Thinkers & what is he most-known for (writings, views on people, government)?

Jean Jasques Rossue Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose treatises and novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution and the Romantic generation. He belived that people were naturally good in their natural state.

Who is one of the 3 Greek Philosphers and what is he known for? (concepts and writting)

Socrates Greatest philosopher of western socitey. The Socratic Mehtod

Laissez Faire

The Americans wanted to practiced LF instead of being under the king's rule

What was the scientific Revolution?

is a concept used by historians to describe the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.

Adam Smith

moral philsosopher

When did the Enlightenment take place?

1600s-1700s

Where did the Enlightenment take place?

Europe

What is the Enlightenment?

a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent exponents include Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.

The Enlightenment

a period where philsophy was brought back

Who is one of the 5 main Enlightenment Thinkers & what is he most-known for (writings, views on people, government)?

Adam Smith He believed that more wealth to common people would benefit a nation's economy and society as a whole. In The Wealth of Nations, Smith described a self-regulating market.

Who is one of the 3 Greek Philosphers and what is he known for? (concepts and writting)

Aristotle student of Plato teacher of Alexander The Great. contributions to logic

Who is one of the 5 main Enlightenment Thinkers & what is he most-known for (writings, views on people, government)?

John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism". He belived human nature is naturally selfish. Life Liberty and Property

Who was involved with the Enlightenment?

John Locke, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Jean- Jacques Rousseau, Baron de Montesquieu, Thomas Hobbes

Volatiare

Often used satire to argue his oppenent

Who is one of the 3 Greek Philosphers and what is he known for? (concepts and writting)

Plato greatest student of Socrates and a teacher to Aristotle. Belived Demorcacy is corrupt. "Philosophy Kings"

Plato

Plato made an anology being trapped in a cave

What was the Enlightenment about?

The Enlightenment is the period in the history of western thought and culture, stretching roughly from the mid-decades of the seventeenth century through the eighteenth century, characterized by dramatic revolutions in science, philosophy, society and politics; these revolutions swept away the medieval world-view and

Who is one of the 5 main Enlightenment Thinkers & what is he most-known for (writings, views on people, government)?

Thomas Hobbes his most famous work Leviathan. In it, he argued that people are naturally wicked and cannot be trusted to govern, therefore Hobbes believed that an absolute monarchy- a government that gives all power to a king or queen-is best.

Who is one of the 5 main Enlightenment Thinkers & what is he most-known for (writings, views on people, government)?

Volatire French philosopher and writer of the Age of Enlightenment. His intelligence, wit and style made him one of France's greatest writers and philosophers, despite the controversy he attracted. He belived in freedom of speech and wrote satires on politcal things

Thomas Hobbes

beleived that people were wicked and selfish

John Locke

belived that people are basically good

Baron de Montesquieu

created the three branches


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