PPT-Historical Introduction to the Age of Reason - Abridged

The following information is gleaned from pages 407 426 of Elements of Literature and beyond An Age of Many Names The time period from 1660 to 1800 is a time of many different names No one name was enough sufficient because so many different things were going on at the time. 1750-1800. Representative Government . The idea of representative government was in keeping with the long-standing English traditions of limiting royal power.. Natural Rights. The writings of British philosopher John Locke profoundly influenced America's founding fathers and 18th century thought. Locke justified limiting royal authority and proposed that all human beings have natural rights and are entitled to political and economic freedom regardless of birth. . Structuring Your Argument. Step 1: . State your opinion or idea.. . Language for Expressing Your Opinion. Here are some ways to introduce your opinion:. I . think that . . . . . I . believe that . . . . This semester we will examine Canadian history through the lens of these Historical . T. hinking . C. oncepts and apply them to our ten Big Ideas.. Establish . historical significance. Use . primary source evidence. . Reason. Puritans and the Founding Fathers. Believers become Thinkers. Power . Vocab. Age of Faith:. . Age of Reason:. colonialism free will. f. aith reason. predestination. . parallel structure. . Immunity . - state of protection from an infectious disease.. . 430 BC – Greek historian Thucydides - Athenian plague. . 15. th. century – Chinese attempts to induce immunity. . 1718 – Mary Wortley Montagu – innoculated her children. Space is something absolutely uniform, and without the things placed in it, one point of space absolutely does not differ in anything from another point of space.. Now, from hence it follows (supposing space to be something in itself, besides the order of bodies among themselves) that it is impossible there should be a reason why God, preserving the same situations of bodies among themselves, should have placed them in space after one certain particular manner and not otherwise—why everything was not placed the quite contrary way, for instance, by changing east into west. . 1. Faith . in natural goodness - a human is born without taint or sin; the concept of . tabula rasa.  or blank . slate. 2. . Perfectibility of a human being - it is possible to improve situations of birth, economy, society, and religion. Ch. 18 answer key. In Search of Natural Laws. What two things did Newton’s laws show?. Newton’s laws showed that with good information people can correctly predict the movement of any falling object on Earth and they can predict the movement of the moon and the planets.. th. and 18. th. centuries who called themselves rationalists.. Rationalism. -the belief that human beings can arrive at truth by using reason, rather than by relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or on intuition.. Second Reason. : Humans matter more than animals because only humans are self-aware (or have the potential for self-awareness).. The fact that the human being can have the representation “I” raises him infinitely above all the other beings on earth. By this he is a person....that is, a being altogether different in rank and dignity from things, such as irrational animals, with which one may deal and dispose at one's discretion.. Historical Antecedents & Influences. Increase in life expectancy resulting in a growing interest in the elderly and the process of aging. . (Kinsella, 1992).. Historical Antecedents & Influences. #3. :. Opposition:. Name ____________________________________________________ Period _________. Thesis. . ______________________________________________. Transition. Word Examples. Support:. Support:. La gamme de thé MORPHEE vise toute générations recherchant le sommeil paisible tant désiré et non procuré par tout types de médicaments. Essentiellement composé de feuille de morphine, ce thé vous assurera d’un rétablissement digne d’un voyage sur . Percentage of Total NSF . Research . Funding. YEAR: 2008. Research for a reason.. CHARTS AND VISUALIZATIONS. Incoming Freshman Average ACT Scores – UL Lafayette. 1999-2009. Research for a reason.. CHARTS AND VISUALIZATIONS.