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=Enlightenment By Alexis, Ryan, Madison, Tom and Logan=

===The age of enlightenment is also known as the age of reason which started in the 1800s. Enlightenment is known for being a European movement that involes applying the method of reason and science to society. The age of reason changed the way people thought to a more logical way. Scholars and Philosopherthought deeper in the beliefs regarding government, religion, economics and education. In the age of enlightenment the thought of soical contract started. Soical contract is the agreement by which people created a government. All of philosophes believed in the five concepts which are=== =Criminal Justice= == ===One of the important changes during the age of enlightment was the Criminal Justice system. A philosophe named Cesare Bonesana Beccaria started the idea of Criminal Justice. He believed that a person who has been accused of a crime should recieve a speedy trial and torture should never be used. Some of the things he thought should be changed was that capital punishment should be abolished and punishment should be based on seriousness of crime.===
 * 1) ===Reason- Philosophes believed that truth could be discovered by logically thinking===
 * 2) ===Nature- Philosophes believed things natural were good and reasonable===
 * 3) ===Happiness- They urged people to find well-being on earth===
 * 4) ===Progress- Philosophes stressed that human kind can be improved===
 * 5) ===Liberty- Philosophes reminded people about the Glorious Revolution and Bill of Rights===

=John Locke= == ====John Locke was one of the first political thinkers of the 1600s and some of his key ideas started the enlightment along with Thomas Hobbes. John was born in 1632 in a middle class family in England. He studied medicine at Oxford University but quickly noticed he wasn't interested in old philosphers but instead insterested in the new theroies. He had many views on human nature, he believed that people could learn from exprience and improve themselves. He also believed that all people were born free and equal and that all people had three natural rights. His three natural rights were life, liberty and property and protecting these three ideas were the purpose of government. If the government couldn't protect these rights, Locke thought that the citizens had the right to over throw it. Our government today is much similar to the thoughts of Locke. His ideas became the start of Liberal Arts. After his ideas on Liberalism spread, many people started thinking more open mindedly the way we do today.==== =Wollstonecraft= In the Enlightment age, women's education was thought of as simple leanring how to be a mother and wife. Many men didn't agree with the idea that women could learn, they thought the idea of a women reading a novel would make the women wicked and idle. Many women writers tried to change the idea of women, one of the main women to right about their rights was Mary Wollstonecraft. In her published essay titled //A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women// she disagreed with the ideas of most men at this time. Instead she stated that women need education to be useful just as men do to. She also urged women to join the medical field and politics. Women were very important to the spread of enlightenment through social gatherings and speaking their minds.

=Montesquieu= Baron de Montesquieu was a french writer who made it his goal to study political liberty and is known for writing one of the most famous books called //On the Spirit of Laws//. At this time the British government was the strongest out of everyone, thought Montestquieu. Britain government had executive power, carried out laws and the judges had judicial power. Both himself and the British had ideas that shaped and formed how government is today.

=Voltaire= François Marie Arouet also known as Voltaire was an important writer during the enlightenment age. He was known to be one of France's greatest writeres and philosophers because he wrote about what interested him. He was interested in drama, politics and philosphy. Through his writing he fought for tolerance, reason, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.