Important Authors/Works
Served as the 3rd president of the United States and was an American Founding Father.
Who is Thomas Jefferson
the time of life when people began to distinguish right from wrong.
What is the Age of Reason
The beliefs and institutions based on religious and political authority will become increasingly eclipsed by those based on science and rationality.
What is modernization?
Changed the ideas of traditional religion, establish science as a valid source of knowledge, and defended basic human rights.
What is the Enlightenment?
A manifesto of modern economic and political liberalism that shows the interconnection of religious tolerance, freedom, and trade.
What are the letters on the English?
An intellectual movement based around the interest in studies focused on what it means to be human, rather than the ideas of traditional religion.
What is the Renaissance?
The power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgements by a process of logic.
What is reason?
The study of this increased due to the Age of Reason.
What is science?
Showcased new schools of thought in all branches of intellectual activity. Many contributors, predominantly Denis Diderot
What is the Encyclopedia?
Change in scientific thought that replaced views of nature that had dominated for almost 2,000 years.
What is Scientific Revolution
The state of being free within society without oppression in any way.
What is liberty?
The Age of Reason helped combat the abuses of what church?
What is the Catholic Church?
These 2 people were devoted to the ideas of justice, liberty, and equality as the natural rights of man.
Who is Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine?
Galileo discovered this in 1610.
What is the discovery of planets?
Doubting appeals to miraculous, transcendent, and supernatural forces that limit the scope of individual choice and reason.
What is skepticism?
Influenced and produced many governmental structures and practices that we use today.
What is the impact of the Age of Reason?