the enlightenment Flashcards
What was the enlightenment?
A period of rapid and intellectual change
Dates of the Enlightenment?
17-18 century
What was the point of the enlightenment?
To stomp out superstition and faith over reason and science
Why was the enlightenment enlightening?
People started to observes the world around hem with hopes to discover a “natural law.” they started meeting together discussed various questions
Examples of enlightenment in the world
Dutch Republic - it flourished due to their openness and willingness to try new forms of government
John Locke’s major argument concerning what made a government fair and just was:
Government should be formed through a contract between people and their ruler, rather than through ideas of religious hierarchy or divine will.
Which of the following rings most true as a summary of what Amy Elizabeth Robinson was trying to share with us in her article on the Enlightenment.
The Enlightenment left a complicated legacy, both liberating and imposing limits on change. Perhaps it is best to think of it as a process, rather than a single thing.
This English intellectual woman wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792.
Mary Wollstonecraft
This black man had been both an enslaved laborer and a sailor, who became a leading voice in the abolitionist movement
Olaudah Equiano
Another abolitionist and French female playwright , wrote a Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen in 1791
Olympe de Gouges
This thinker rejected the rigid “natural laws” supposedly “discovered” by European philosophers. Instead, he argued that indigenous people had a better understanding of natural law and how to establish a fair society.
José Antonio de Alzate y Ramirez
This political event that took place in 1688 in England was highlighted in the reading as a pivotal moment in the development of Enlightenment thought.
The Glorious Revolution
Ms. Robinson helps us to contextualize the historical world that surrounded the philosophes who kick started the Enlightenment by pointing out which of the following?
Philosophes were convinced in the superiority of men to women when it came to rational thinking.
Philosophes were for the most part disdainful of children and felt they were unruly and therefore must be educated harshly to help them become “rational”.
Philosophes felt that colonial people were inferior.
What can be discovered under all aspects of life?
“natural law”
What mistake did Locke ake?
Locke was a shareholder in the Royal African Company, which was profiting from the enslavement of Africans. He argued that slavery was okay if it resulted from “just war”
