PPT-Black Enlightenment

How did African Americans contribute to the Enlightenment The Enlightenment helped to develop the careers of the first black intellectuals Some African Americans became scientists and authors Phillis. What exciting conclusion did philosophers reach during the Enlightenment?. . Reason. could be used to solve all human problems.. Thomas Hobbes. . •English thinker, wrote views of government in . Prof Mark Knights. Key questions. Why is it important for modernists to understand the Enlightenment? . What was its legacy and why is that legacy a controversial one? . Isms: liberalism, socialism, conservatism, romanticism, fascism, colonialism, . Sapere. . Aude. !. Dare to know!. - Immanuel Kant (1784). One day, Bossuet. The next, Voltaire. Bishop . Bossuet, . Politics drawn from Holy Scripture . (late 17. th. c.). The grounds of . authority: God, Bible, King. Sarah Richardson. Outline. What is the Enlightenment?. Historiography. Geography . Women and the Enlightenment. Rousseau . and Gender. Men and Feminism. What is the Enlightenment?. Summed up by Immanuel . - The Scientific Revolution. Rachel Nostrant & Kenneth King. The Enlightenment- The 5W’s. What: the intellectual movement of the 17. th. and 18. th. centuries marked by a celebration of the powers of the human reason, a keen interest in science, the promotion of religious toleration, desire to construct governments free of tyranny.. Enlightenment (Age of Reason). Enlightenment thinkers believed that human progress was possible through:. the application of scientific . knowledge. & . reason. to the issues of . law. & . The Power of Ideas and Thought: 18. th. Century Salon. During the 16. th. and 17. th. century, European scientists used reason to discover laws of nature-. Copernicus, Galileo, Newton. In the early 1700’s Europeans began to wonder about reason, specifically, if people used reason to find laws that governed the physical world, why not use reason to discover natural laws- . Enlightenment. is man's emergence from his self-imposed . mental immaturity. . This immaturity is . the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. . This immaturity is . self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and . Constructing a New Paradigm of Man and Society . Mr. Daniel Lazar. Lecture Outline . Operational Definition. The Road to Enlightenment. The State of Nature. Enlightened Governance. Enlightened. Economics. John Locke. 3 concepts of . gov’t. :. Consent of the . goverened. a social contract between a fair . gov’t. & responsible citizens. right to revolution. Locke believed Property was the most . Jonathan . Dewald. , . Europe 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World. Peter Hamilton. , ‘The Enlightenment and the Birth of Social Science’. Chris Harman, . A People’s History of the World. The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. Late 1600s-1700s: An intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment began in Europe. Later a religious movement known as the Great Awakening started in the Colonies . “The Enlightenment is a belief in the ability of the human mind and human enterprise to change the political, social, and economic framework of the world for the better”. Begins with Scientific Revolution; Questioning the world around. . Chapter 5 section 2. Define the terms below:. Censorship. Salon. Enlightened despot. Baroque. R. ococo. Enlightenment Ideas Spread . Read Setting the Scene on page 149 as well as the Global Connections section.