Journal 45 - “The Enlightened Thinkers”

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SSWH13 The student will examine the intellectual, political, social, and economic factors that changed the worldview of Europeans.
b. Identify the major ideas of the Enlightenment from the writings of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau and their relationship to politics and society.

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45) JOURNAL ENTRY, “The Enlightened Thinkers”

Essential Question – What was the impact of the political thinkers of the Enlightenment?
·       On the Right Side-
1) Create three bubble maps/or columns for each of the three Enlightened thinkers (Rousseau, Locke, and Voltaire)
2) List ideas, theories, and works.

·       On the Left Side-
1) Define the Enlightenment.
2) Then write a ½ page about how these enlightened thinkers influenced the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the American Revolution.
3) You can create a graphic organizer for this (4-column) if you choose to do so instead of writing it out in paragraph form.

Textbook Link: Chapter 22 Section 3

Textbook Link: Chapter 22 Section 2

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John Locke was an Oxford scholar, medical researcher and physician, political operative, economist and idealogue for a revolutionary movement, as well as being one of the great philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century.

As a brilliant, undisciplined, and unconventional thinker, Jean-Jacques Rousseau spent most of his life being driven by controversy back and forth between Paris and his native Geneva.

Author Voltaire wrote the satirical novella Candide and, despite controversy during his lifetime, is widely considered one of France's greatest Enlightenment writers.

The Founding Fathers were a group of extraordinary thinkers and brilliant men, but throughout the course of American Constitutional History, there were a number of other writers, philosophers, and revolutionaries who helped champion or support the case for American Independence.

John Locke believed that every man has natural rights that include the right to live and the right to property. He also said people should have freedom and that no man should be a slave. This could have influenced Declaration of Independence because it says, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”