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It is our memories that give us context and change our purposes…..~Mohinder Suresh ;Key Topics;Economic change political reform….; Movement of people ideas ENLIGHTENMENT Think of possibilities…not just actualities.;Philosophes: A bunch of guys sitting around in some woman’s living room, chatting discussing current events—asking themselves: “What’s wrong with our society?” “How can we fix it?” Can I have another cigar and brandy?;Apply rules of reason to nearly all the major institutions social practices….; Voltaire Diderot Rousseau Gibbon Lessing ;Not an organized group Disagreed on many issues Family-like dynamics—do all family members agree? CHIEF BOND: Common desire to reform thought, society, government for the sake of HUMAN LIBERTY In touch with everyday life/common people;Influences….;Isaac Newton;John Locke;Great Britain—post-1688;Great Britain—post-1688;France Louis XIV;Print Culture…;…Print culture…;“Opinion, queen of the world, is in no [way] subject to the power of kings; they themselves are her first slaves.” ~Rousseau The Social Contract; “Therefore it is all in vain; neither reason, nor virtue, nor laws will prevail over the public opinion, so long as there is no contrivance to change it. Once more I say it, force will not do so.” ~Rousseau The Social Contract;…Print Culture…;The Enlightenment Religion;The Enlightenment Religion;Deism;Deism;Toleration must be #1 “…life on Earth and human relationships should not be subordinated to religion.” KOT However—at the same time John Wesley Methodism Not break away from Anglican Church Urge spiritual enthusiasm Important revival of Christianity More on this later (Romanticism); Methodism proved that the need for spiritual experience had not been expunged by the 18th-Century search for REASON…. ~Spielvogel;“If there were just one religion in England, despotism would threaten, if there were two religions, they would cut each other’s throats, but there are thirty religions, and they live together p