PPT-The Age of Reason

Historical Context American Revolution growth of patriotism Development of American characterdemocracy Use of reason as opposed to faith alone compared to Puritan writing which was focused on faith. Template. <Your project name>. <Your sponsors>. Why are we here?. Important reason #1. Important reason #2. Important reason #3. <#1 reason for doing this project>. The elevator pitch. 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 . . . . Rationalism. 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 intuition.. REASON! . . 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. Romanticism, Washington Irving, and His Works. Romanticism. Romanticism is the opposite of what America’s literature HAS been. It is a reaction to . classicism. or the “age or reason”. Instead of reason and control, the literature focuses on emotion, imagination, and self-revelation. ‘Two extravagances: to exclude reason, to admit only reason.’. Blaise. Pascal, 1623-62. Thanks to Richard van de . Lagemaat. , Theory of Knowledge for the IB Diploma, . Cambridge University Press. I. Scientific Discoveries. Scientific Discoveries. Two principal authorities during the Middle Ages:. Ancient philosophers. Church tradition. The Scientific Method. Recognize the inadequacy of existing knowledge to explain a given question.. 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. . 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. . 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. The 17. th. Century. The Age of Reason, Enlightenment, and . Scientific Revolution. 2. The Enlightenment – The Age of Reason. “The political history of the Western world since the 18th century has been dominated by the notion of individual rights.”. codes. Copyright © 2017 American Institutes for Research. All rights reserved.. Test Information Distribution Engine (TIDE) Training. Module . 8. Activating your account and navigating through TIDE. 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.. INTRODUCTION. . Neo Classical age is basically defined as the imitation of classicism. Literally ‘neo’ means new and ‘classical’ refers to the style and works of the ancient writers of Greece and Rome. Together it refers to the rebirth or revival of classical learning..