Age of Reason

By: Kelcy Bux

Period One

“It is in their bones. It has defined part of what they have dreamed of, what they aim to become.”

Big Ideas

• Church and State Together (Theocracy)

• Centrality of God• Monarchy• Community Matters• Bible and Tradition

are the Truth

• Individualism/ Liberty• Humanism• Natural Rights For All• Governmental Change

of Boundaries• Scientific Truth• Thinking Logically

Before Enlightenment During Enlightenment

John Locke1632-1704

• Ability to Think Makes Us Humans

• Tabula Rosa- Born Without Knowledge

• Learn Through Experience• Morality is Ingrained In

Us, but Given by an Outside Lawgiver

• Belief is Truth, The Gov’t Can’t Force Belief

• 2 Treatises of Gov’t

- reject divine and absolute right of monarchy

- Replace w/ gov’t that provides order and respects individuals

• Religious Freedom

- All except Atheists & Catholics for they cant abide by his way of Gov’t

Your “Government” Social

ContractGov’t gives Protection

People give up Property & Obey

Natural LawBorn With Life, Liberty, Property & Health

Moral LawNot Being Bad, Given By Outside Lawgiver

According

To Locke

Thomas Jefferson

• A Renaissance Man• Lawmaker, Writer,

Scientist, Architect, and Inventor

• Wrote the Declaration of Independence

- adopted July 4th 1776• 3rd president of the US- elected in 1800

The Declaration of Independence• Four Major Sections- Preamble- Declaration of Rights- List of Complaints- Conclusion• Ideas of John Locke• Most Important Part is the

Preamble (natural rights listed)

• Written by Thomas Jefferson

• “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Stride Toward Freedom

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Uses Hegelian Theory

- Bring two ideas together to create one better idea

- Brings Acquiescence and Violence together to create Nonviolent Resistance

• Uses many Biblical Allusions

Acquiescence + Violence = Nonviolence Resistance

Acquiescence Violence Nonviolent Resistance

+ “don’t care” + immediate results

+ get results

+ no violence + sense of power + more equality

- become conditioned to it

- kills the future and is a circle

+ peace, no one gets hurt

- oppressor thinks its okay

- proves beliefs to be true

+ moral and logical

Stride Toward Freedom

• My Brothers Keeper- refers to peoples

reluctance to accept responsibility for others

- King argues people should look out for one another

• Peter … Sword- Peter cut off the

soldiers ear for arresting Jesus

- Jesus condemned Peter

- Proves violence is not the answer to solving problems

Biblical Allusions

Stride Towards Freedom

• Moses leads the children of Israel from slavery

- Finds some do not want to go…

- They are accustomed to slavery

- Acquiescence doesn’t help the problem

• An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

- when people use violence everyone suffers

- Violence just creates more problems

Biblical Allusions

Necessary to Protect Ourselves

• Malcolm X• Interview• Argues Social

Contract• Believes the Gov’t is

not protecting the African American people

- They must protect themselves

Necessary to Protect Ourselves

• “I think all of us should be critics of each other. Whenever you cant stand criticism you can never grow...”

• “…people will never be respected as humans until we react as other normal intelligent human beings do…”

• “…get whatever is necessary to protect ourselves in a country or in an area where the governmental ability to protect us has broken down…”

What Is An American?

• A country is suppose to nourish you like a mother.

• A citizen should love their country and work hard for it.

• Uni Panis Ibi Patria- Where my bread is earned, that is my country.

What Is An American?

• Old and Withered• Mowed Down by Want,

Hunger, and War• Sore and Poor• No Harvest• Jail and Punishments• Live Under a King• Work with No Reward• Nature Rights Not

Honored

• New and Flourished• Provides Land, Bread, and

Protection• Diversity and New Men• Consequence: Purpose

and Importance• New Ideas and Way of

Living• Motivating and Happiness• Changes the World

Life in Europe Life in America

-Spiritual Transformation-

Resources

• McDougal Littell, The Language of Literature

• Notes from Class