https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9 Made with love en-us 2021-10-04 16:10:14 UTC 2025-10-03 21:59:30 UTC hello@padlet.com aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1790235534 The Enlightenment or the Age of Reason was a philosophical movement in 18th century Europe that was centered around the idea that reason is the primary source of authority. ]]> 2021-10-04 16:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1790235534 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1790244252 Philosophers during the Enlightenment questioned traditions and embraced the thought of changing these traditional ways of thinking through rational change. ]]> 2021-10-04 16:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1790244252 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1790250730 Organized by women, salons were meetings that Philosophers had to discuss and debate their ideas. ]]> 2021-10-04 16:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1790250730 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1790270114 A medieval idea that God chose a country's king and said king got his power from God. Many Enlightenment thinkers went against this accepted idea. ]]> 2021-10-04 16:33:08 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1790270114 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1790279341 A religious philosophy in the 18th century that was based on reason that recognizes a higher power (not living by a specific holy book or church). ]]> 2021-10-04 16:36:19 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1790279341 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1790294816 Thomas Hobbes was a philosopher who believed that governments were made to protect people from their own selfishness, cruelness, and greediness. ]]> 2021-10-04 16:42:00 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1790294816 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1790300816 John Locke was a philosopher who believed the purpose of government was to protect people's natural rights. ]]> 2021-10-04 16:44:16 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1790300816 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1797415498 Montesquieu was a philosopher who believed in the separations of powers. He thought that if the government was separated into groups, no one person would grow to have too much power. ]]> 2021-10-06 18:08:05 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1797415498 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1797428031 The division of government responsibilities into certain branches to stop any one branch from becoming more powerful than another. ]]> 2021-10-06 18:12:42 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1797428031 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1797439048 A philosopher who believed in religious tolerance and free speech. ]]> 2021-10-06 18:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1797439048 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1797447952 Tolerance is the acceptance of different beliefs and customs. ]]> 2021-10-06 18:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1797447952 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1797466167 An English writer who believed that education was the key for equality and freedom for women.]]> 2021-10-06 18:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1797466167 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1797484380 Rousseau believed that a good government is one that achieves general will. ]]> 2021-10-06 18:34:30 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1797484380 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1797489195 A social contract is the concept that a society as a whole agrees to be governed by its general will. ]]> 2021-10-06 18:36:28 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1797489195 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1797499665 A book published in 1651 by Thomas Hobbes. This book was about Hobbes idea that people are driven by a restless desire for power. ]]> 2021-10-06 18:40:23 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1797499665 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1808348295 Freedom to enlightenment thinkers was a natural human right. They argued that reason was responsible for human knowledge. ]]> 2021-10-11 17:29:50 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1808348295 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1808370734 Enlightenment thinkers believed that independence meant that all people are entitled to certain rights just by being a human being. ]]> 2021-10-11 17:39:02 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1808370734 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1808392195 The Enlightenment influenced the Constitution in many ways like Montesquieu's separation of power and Rosseau's concept of direct democracy.]]> 2021-10-11 17:48:00 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1808392195 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1808410601 Core Enlightenment ideas were used throughout the Declaration of Independence like the belief that a government's main purpose is to protect the rights of its people. ]]> 2021-10-11 17:55:37 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1808410601 aburns113 https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1808428487 Voltaire's most famous novel that made fun of old religious ideas and debunked the philosophy of optimism. ]]> 2021-10-11 18:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/aburns113/o1uvba5x7lfdt2x9/wish/1808428487