PPT-T he Enlightenment and Modernity

Prof Mark Knights Key questions Why is it important for modernists to understand the Enlightenment What was its legacy and why is that legacy a controversial one Isms liberalism socialism . What exciting conclusion did philosophers reach during the Enlightenment?. . Reason. could be used to solve all human problems.. Thomas Hobbes. . •English thinker, wrote views of government in . Sarah Richardson. Outline. What is the Enlightenment?. Historiography. Geography . Women and the Enlightenment. Rousseau . and Gender. Men and Feminism. What is the Enlightenment?. Summed up by Immanuel . Social Studies for 9. th. E.G.B.. Teacher: Mauricio Torres. Pens to Inspire Revolution. “No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason” . Enlightenment. is man's emergence from his self-imposed . mental immaturity. . This immaturity is . the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. . This immaturity is . self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and . Lecture 2: . Historiography 2014/15. Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804 . ‘. Enlightenment is mankind’s exit from self-incurred immaturity. . . Immaturity. is the inability to make use of one’s own understanding without the guidance of another. Self-incurred is the inability if its cause lies not in the lack of understanding but rather in the lack of the resolution and the courage to use it without the guidance of another. . Modernism and the Avantgarde. The crisis of modernity 1. Dissatisfaction with reason. Reason: instrument of freedom → instrument of oppression, policing, terror. . Inhumanity of science and technology (Frankenstein, mad scientist, factory as dystopia, production line, machine, WW1) . Next to each statement, write:. SA. if you Strongly Agree. A. if you Agree. D. if you Disagree. SD. if you Strongly Disagree. The Enlightenment. 1651-1794. Enlightenment. A European intellectual movement . “The Enlightenment is a belief in the ability of the human mind and human enterprise to change the political, social, and economic framework of the world for the better”. Begins with Scientific Revolution; Questioning the world around. . [5]. RUC, SPRING 2017. PART ONE . MICHEL FOUCAULT. : . WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT? . 1 . Today . when a periodical asks its readers a question, it does so in order to collect opinions on some subject about which everyone has an opinion already; there is not much likelihood of learning anything new. In the eighteenth century, editors preferred to question the public on problems that did not yet have solutions. I don't know whether or not that practice was more effective; it was unquestionably more entertaining. . What were the results of Renaissance thoughts and theories. Before the Revolution. All ideas of science came from the Greeks & Bible. With new inventions came new ideas. . The Scientific Revolution= people discovering new theories about science. EQ: Why are current day Pop Stars most likely not members of The Illuminati?. Bellringer. # . 3/11/14. When you see these people what are the first five words that come to your mind?. Better Yet……. 1550-1800. . Chapter 8 in Text – . pages 128 to 147. Chapter 8 – Lesson 1. The Scientific Revolution. The Renaissance - . inspired spirit of _____________; discoveries of ________________ manuscripts led to the realization that ancient scholars often did not _______________; scholars began to question ideas that had been accepted for _____________ of years. Religious Responses to Modernity. Current IoE Survey – published in an 2015 (9000 . respondents. ). 25% of Britons think religion is a force for good in society (some believers included in this . category). It is another . intellectual movement in the later part of the twentieth century.. It marks a point of . distinct departure from the modernist project both in terms of their intellectual foundation and institutional set-up. .