PPT-The Age of Reason

David Laibson Harvard University Robert I Goldman Professor of Economics June 2011 View in slideshow mode to skip hidden slides Behavioral Economics aka Psychology and Economics Analysis of the psychological factors that influence economic choices. When I started making candles in 1997 the candle industry was a huge secret and no one was willing to share information on how to make good candles I wasted a bunch of money figuring out how to make the best candles I wanted to be able to make and s 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. 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 . . . . Jeremy Seligman. The University of Auckland. Reason and Passio. n. “We speak not strictly and philosophically when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them” . 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. 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. . UNIT 2: A GROWING NATION. Essential Question: . How . do writers convey the essence of freedom?  How has the concept of freedom evolved over time? . WHAT NOW?. -. Puritan New England lasted from about 1630-1720. There were three things that needed to happen for that society to exist:. 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.. 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.