PPT-Enlightenment Thinkers and Gender

Mary Wollstonecraft and Hannah More Introduction Debate on gender often confused and contradictory Growing number of female writers entering debate Focus on role of women their education and their . Lesson 3.2. Knight’s Charge. What is the difference between an Absolute Monarchy and a Limited Monarchy?. What were the two sides of the English civil war called?. Did people like King James I? Why or why not?. 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 . 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 . Text pages 518-525. World History Standard 13- Examine the intellectual, political, social, and economic factors that changed the world view of Europeans. . b. Identify the major ideas of the Enlightenment from the writings of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau and their relationship to politics & society. . Enlightenment (Age of Reason). Enlightenment thinkers believed that human progress was possible through:. the application of scientific . knowledge. & . reason. to the issues of . law. & . 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. 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. . 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. 1550-1800. . Chapter 8 in Text – . pages 128 to 147. Chapter 8 – Lesson 1. The Scientific Revolution. The Renaissance - . inspired spirit of _____________; discoveries of ________________ manuscripts led to the realization that ancient scholars often did not _______________; scholars began to question ideas that had been accepted for _____________ of years. 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. .