The Age of Enlightenment refers to the 18th century in European philosophy, and is often thought of

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The Age of Enlightenment refers to the 18th
century in European philosophy, and is often
thought of as part of a larger period which
includes the Age of Reason.
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• This movement advocated rationality as a means to
  establish an authoritative system of ethics,
  aesthetics, and knowledge.

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The Social Contract "Man is born free but
everywhere he is in chains."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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John Locke

• "government with the consent of the governed" and
  man's natural rightslife, liberty, and estate
  (property)

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New York Skyline 1771
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• George
• Whitefield

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• George Whitefield
• mesmerizing the
• masses.

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John Wesley
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• Cotton Mather

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The burning of Zenger's New York Weekly Journal
(Bettman Archive)
affect every free man that lives under a
British government on the main of America.  It is
the best cause.  It is the cause of liberty
Andrew Hamilton Atty for John Peter Zenger