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Main Point - Enlightenment thinkers argued that a society based on individual freedom would be happier, wealthier and more just.
Main Point - Enlightenment thinkers argued that a society based on individual freedom would be happier, wealthier and more just.
Main Point - Enlightenment thinkers believed that freedom of speech and information was crucial for making a society based on Enlightenment ideas.
Main Point - Enlightenment thinkers believed that freedom of speech and information was crucial for making a society based on Enlightenment ideas.
Main Point - The ideas of the Enlightenment were in direct opposition to those of absolutism, and the Enlightenment thinkers wanted to provoke that conflict.
Main Point - The ideas of the Enlightenment were in direct opposition to those of absolutism, and the Enlightenment thinkers wanted to provoke that conflict.
Homework Assignment # 4 - Reading on the Enlightenment
Homework Assignment # 4 - Reading on the Enlightenment
Reading on The Enlightenment & Development of Modern Values - Click Here
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Source # 1 - Video on the Impact of the Enlightenment on French Society - click here
(Note - you need to be logged into you BHS Google account to watch the video)
Unit 1 - Enlightenment France.mpgSource # 4 - TED Video about the origins of the Encyclopédie - click here
Classwork - Enlightenment
Classwork - Enlightenment
Source # 1 - Images of Pages from the Encyclopédie showing the process of printing
Primary Source - The following is response King Louis XV, the king of France from 1715 to 1774, to the creation of Diderot’s Encyclopédie - His Majesty has observed that in these two volumes they have dared to include ideas tending to destroy the authority of the king, to form a spirit of independence and revolution, and hidden in obscure language, to raise the foundation of error, moral corruption, irreligion and unbelief.
Source # 2 - Map showing Voltaire's Correspondence by Letter - This map shows the locations of the people Voltaire corresponded with by letter. The data on the map shows about 10% of the 19,000 letters in Voltaire's correspondence. The size of the shows the number of people Voltaire corresponded with in each location. (Click on Map to Get a Larger View)
Primary Source - Quote from Voltaire - "What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
Source # 3 - Political Map of Europe with Centers of the Enlightenment (Click on Map to Get a Larger View)
Primary Source - Quote from Montesquieu - "The English system of government is one of the wisest in Europe, because there is a body which scrutinizes it constantly, and which also submits itself to scrutiny."
Primary Source - Voltaire in Letters on the English (1726 - 1729) - "The English are the only people upon the earth who have been able to prescribe limits to the power of the kings by resisting them; and who, by a series of struggles, have at last established that wise Government where the Prince is all powerful to do good, and, at the same time, is restrained from committing evil... ... and where the people share in the Government without confusion... ... The English have doubtlessly purchased their liberties at a very high price, and waded through seas of blood to drown the idol of arbitrary power."
Additional Materials
Additional Materials
Source # 2 - Table showing the changes in literacy rates in different European Countries from 1550 to 1750
Written Sources
Written Sources
Primary Source # 1 - Quote from Voltaire - "What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
Primary Source # 2 - Quote from Montesquieu - "The English system of government is one of the wisest in Europe, because there is a body which scrutinizes it constantly, and which also submits itself to scrutiny."
Primary Source # 3 - Voltaire in Letters on the English (1726 - 1729) - "The English are the only people upon the earth who have been able to prescribe limits to the power of the kings by resisting them; and who, by a series of struggles, have at last established that wise Government where the Prince is all powerful to do good, and, at the same time, is restrained from committing evil... ... and where the people share in the Government without confusion... ... The English have doubtlessly purchased their liberties at a very high price, and waded through seas of blood to drown the idol of arbitrary power."
Primary Source # 4 - The following is response King Louis XV, the king of France from 1715 to 1774, to the creation of Diderot’s Encyclopédie - His Majesty has observed that in these two volumes they have dared to include ideas tending to destroy the authority of the king, to form a spirit of independence and revolution, and hidden in obscure language, to raise the foundation of error, moral corruption, irreligion and unbelief.
Class Assignment # 4 - Organizing Evidence
Class Assignment # 4 - Organizing Evidence
Build a Comparison Diagram showing the conflict between the idea of absolute monarchy in France the and ideas of the Enlightenment. A comparison diagram is used to organize a complex comparison between events or ideas where there are many points of comparison. A comparison diagram lists each issue being compared along with evidence that shows the issue in both events.
The picture to the right shows a concept diagram - Click on the image to enlarge it.
You should organize your diagram along the following five issues: individual rights, equality, free speech, location of political power and economic decision-making. The more specific and detailed the evidence included in the diagram the better.
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