roots of enlightenment

							    Leaders of the
    Enlightenment
This PowerPoint presentation accompanies
        Closeup Teaching Unit 6.6.1
       Leaders of the Enlightenment
               1650-1800,

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 Welcome to            The
      the        Enlightenment
Enlightenment!     lasted from
                  about 1650-
                      1800.




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What was the Enlightenment?

 Attitude and
  method of            Enlightenment: A
   thought.           time when reason
                     was used to find out
                     truths about human
                            beings!




                “Dare to Know”
                  Immanuel Kant


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Roots of Enlightenment
     Renaissance
 •Humanism

 •Importance of the
  individual
 •Rediscovery of
  classical teaching
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Roots of Enlightenment
     Reformation
Martin Luther challenged the
Catholic Church’s authority
and brought on the
Protestant Reformation
beginning in 1517.




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       Roots of Enlightenment
        Scientific Revolution
               Observation, logic, and reasoning
 You mean,
 I’m not the   Questioning beliefs and ideas
  center of
everything?!




                Galileo facing the Roman Inquisition, a
                   painting by Cristiano Banti, 1857      6
What was the strongest influence
    on the Enlightenment?

                                Wait until
      The Renaissance,           you see
  Reformation, and Scientific     how it
  Revolution all contributed     affects
  with new ways of thinking     your life!
    and looking at things.




    How did the
   Enlightenment
   affect common
      citizens?


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The End




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