The Age of Enlightenment:

Braden Cowden P#2 4-10-15

1. Some of the major intellectual changes that led to the
Enlightenment were Galileos development on the telescope, also The
Renaissance, since this Period was the aftermath of the Renaissance.
And many other inventions and wars that people invented, founded
and fought. For example, like Newtons laws of motion.
2. It involved from all of the many ideas and talents of that period. The
inventions, discoveries, pieces of work and more had the 18c more
advanced and evolved then from the 17c.
3.
Reason
Deist Movement
Deism
Skepticism
Individualism
Politics
Rationalism
Cosmology
Secularism
Locke and his works
Scientists
Countries
Etc.
4. *God-People-King= Social contract theory
*Peoples relationship with one another -Rule of Law-early state of
nature-needed authority= Thomas Hobbes
*Powers by the government-citizens rights- believed in right to create
government and protect property- Life, Liberty, Property= John Locke
*Social Contract-Natural Rights- Consent to be governed- Rule of LawLimited Government- Separation of Powers- Freedom of religion and
speech= Enlightenment Period!
5. It influenced the growing popularity of history because they took and
developed the future from the past. New inventions, ideas and more
from the Renaissance, etc and by this Gibbon said this as a bright
new future. It took the past and made a bright future, which is why it is
called the Enlightenment period.

6. It went against their own findings. Also, the thinking of

Enlightenment ruined the authority of religion because it allowed
people to think and believe in what they want. And sometimes, it was
weird and extraordinary things they come up with!
7. Deists believe that a creator god does exist, but that after the
motions of the universe were set in place he retreated, having no
further interaction with the created universe or the beings within it.
They hoped to get people to break off of Christianity and most likely
become deists.
8. The philosophies were faith in the European Reason and human
rationality to reject the tradition and the pre-established institutions
and thoughts. Also Search for the practical, useful knowledge as the
power to control nature. John Locke is considered generally as the
founder of Enlightenment movement in philosophy.
9. Their job was to come up with new and bright ideas. They had to
come up with new discoveries and findings. They were different from
the people in the earlier centuries because they had more developed
minds and had more knowledge during that time, helping them find
more discoveries.
10. This is because the Greek and Roman nations were advanced and
had knowledge. They ridiculed the middle ages because of how not
advanced and not evolved they were. They werent as smart.
11. Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage.
Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without
another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in
lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use
one's own mind without another's guidance.
12. Relativism is the doctrine that knowledge, truth, and morality exist
in relation to culture, society, or historical context, and are not
absolute. He responded to it by using that as showing it as what
government should actually be.
13. He admired that it had a mixed government. It had a monarch at
the head, but a representative body checking his power. What was
inaccurate about it was that it wasnt exactly right.
14. That we should have people if higher power. Also, and have higher
classes of titles and authorities. A republican democracy really.

15. The belief of physiocrats is people who believe in nature generally.

Also, life in general. They were environmental people, who were
hippies. These went along with the idea of Enlightenment because it
was life and the bright side of things. And how to always look at the
bright side of all situations. It was a dawn of a new age of time, of
happiness and light.