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The Enlightenment It is a foundation of American
Democracy
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The people of the Scientific and Enlightenment
Revolution challenged the way people thought It
became the AGE OF REASON By using the Scientific
method of observation and reason, the
Enlightenment philosophers hoped to figure our
ways to improve the conditions of people. The
biggest idea change? Men are born free and equal
and govt ought to reflect that
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Age of Reason or The Enlightenment
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Before the Enlightenment (in the dark ages when
they threw the dead bodies in the drinking water)
peoples rights were very limited and selective.
They were special privileges enjoyed by certain
groups of people.
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Though it might seem easy, today, to criticize
such a passionate emphasis on reason, remember
that Voltaire's society tortured people who went
against the accepted norm. WOULD YOU BE
WILLING TO PAY THAT PRICE TO CHANGE SOCIETY IN
WAYS YOU DEEM NECESSARY?
Every man is guilty of all the good he didnt
do. God is a comedian playing to an audience
too afraid to laugh. If God did not exist, it
would be necessary to invent him. It is
dangerous to be right when the government is
wrong. Love truth and pardon error. I may not
agree with what you say but I will defend to my
death your right to say it.
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• This is the foundation world of our founding
  fathers...
• and these are the philosophers who so profoundly
  influenced what would become our little social
  experiment known as the United States of America

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John Locke

• Lockes political philosophy is called the
  natural rights philosophy

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And a few more....
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