By: Luke Robbins, Isabel Leonard, and Sydney Weisbach

Philosophes(1650-1700)

John Locke(1632-1704)

The Enlightenment(1656-)

Natural Laws(1664)

Mary Astell(1666-1731)

Baron deMontesquieu(1689-1755)

Voltaire(1694-1778)

Jean-JaquesRousseau(1712-1778)

Adam Smith(1723-1790)

MaryWollstonecraft(1759-1797)

A Vindication of theRights of A Woman(1792)

A philosophical movement of the 18th century that emphasized the use of reason to scrutinize previously accepted doctrines and traditions and that brought about many humanitarian reforms.

• Started in France

•Began in 1656

• Intellectual thinkers that began to push people to think not of religion and superstition to rational thinking and questioning

•Theory of Progress

John Locke

What he did, his effect on the enlightenment

Things that influenced the enlightenment

(did john locke invent natural law? Or Im not sure)

John Locke

What he did, his effect on the enlightenment

Things that influenced the enlightenment

(did john locke invent natural law? Or Im not sure)

• Two Treatises of Government

• Natural Laws

• Essay Concerning Human Understanding

•Political Philosopher

Beginning of The Enlightenment

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• Essay on Tolerance

• The Glorious Revolution

• William III and Mary II

Francois-Marie Arouet

•Pen name is Voltaire

•Individual Freedom

•Against the Roman Catholic church and Christianity

Baron De Montesquieu

•L’Esprit de Lois (1748)•Letters Persanes (Persian Letters)

• Political Equality

• The Social Contract

•Popular Sovereignty/ Sovereignty

• Wealth of Nations

• Laws of Supply and Demand

Mary Astell

Her

Howshe influenced the Enlightenment

Effect on society

Mary Astell

Her

Howshe influenced the Enlightenment

Effect on society

• Enlightenment Feminist

• A Serious Proposal to The Ladies Part I and II

• Philosopher and Feminist

•A Vindication of Women’s Rights

The belief, based solely on reason, in a God who created the universe and then abandoned it, assuming no control over life, exerting no influence on natural phenomena, and giving no supernatural revelation.

The Enlightenment Today