PPT-Enlightenment and modernity

Enlightenment and modernity Dr Stuart Middleton October 2019 How enlightenment made the modern world Opposition to enlightenment and the making of the modern world Questionable legacies of enlightenment. Lecture 2. Religious Responses to Modernity. Current . IoE. Survey – published in an 2015 (9000 . espondents. ). 25% of Britons think religion is a force for good in society (some believers included in this category. 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 . Social Studies for 9. th. E.G.B.. Teacher: Mauricio Torres. Pens to Inspire Revolution. “No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason” . 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 . Mark Knights. Secular or religious Enlightenment?. Historiographical debate: . Carl Becker (. The Heavenly City of Eighteenth-Century Philosophers . 1932) asserted Enlightenment was akin to medieval Christianity. 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 . 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, . What were the results of Renaissance thoughts and theories. Before the Revolution. All ideas of science came from the Greeks & Bible. With new inventions came new ideas. . The Scientific Revolution= people discovering new theories about science. Do now: MC on . Enlightened response. To absolutism and then. EAT IT . on back. Absolute strengths. Absolute Weaknesses. Divine right made populace obedient out of fear. Enlightened despots provided some rights to individuals to keep them happy. EQ: Why are current day Pop Stars most likely not members of The Illuminati?. Bellringer. # . 3/11/14. When you see these people what are the first five words that come to your mind?. Better Yet……. Religious Responses to Modernity. Current IoE Survey – published in an 2015 (9000 . respondents. ). 25% of Britons think religion is a force for good in society (some believers included in this . category). Lesson #302. ENLIGHTENMENT. What WAS the Enlightenment. 1690-1789. Textbook Definition. : . a . European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. . During this unit, you will:. Know the key ideas Enlightenment thinkers, Revolutions in Europe and the Americas, and the concept of Nationalism in Europe.. Understand how the ideas of Locke and Hobbes created the enlightenment, and in turn how the enlightenment caused the Revolutions of the 18. Lecture 2: . Historiography 2018/19. The question of human agency and human experience? . The question of historical change and what causes change?. The question of scale. The relationship between ‘particulars’ and ‘universals’ or, to frame it otherwise, between historical ‘facts’ and their wider meaning. .