the enlightenment jigsaw reading - student b
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Criticisms of Religious Authority
• Criticisms often motivated by typical Enlightenment belief in reason and social justice
Thomas Paine, 1737-1809
Criticisms of Religious Authority
• Criticisms often motivated by typical Enlightenment belief in reason and social justice
• Tom Paine on the Bible: “a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.”
Criticisms of Religious Authority• Criticisms often motivated by
typical Enlightenment belief in reason and social justice
• Tom Paine: “a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.”
• Voltaire’s Treatise on Tolerance (1763) “we ought to look upon all men as our brothers” Voltaire, 1694 - 1778
Movements for Social Reform
• 1764: Cessare Beccaria argues for the humane treatment of criminals
Movements for Social Reform
• 1764: Cessare Beccaria argues for the humane treatment of criminals
• “Every punishment that does not arise from absolute necessity is tyrannical”
Movements for Social Reform
• 1764: Cessare Beccaria argues for the humane treatment of criminals
• “Every punishment that does not arise from absolute necessity is tyrannical”
• Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Right of Women (1792)
Movements for Social Reform
• 1764: Cessare Beccaria argues for the humane treatment of criminals
• “Every punishment that does not arise from absolute necessity is tyrannical”
• Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Right of Women (1792)
• “I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves”
Movements for Social Reform
• 1764: Cessare Beccaria argues for the humane treatment of criminals
• “Every punishment that does not arise from absolute necessity is tyrannical”
• Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Right of Women (1792)
• “I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves”
• Anti-slavery movement initially slow to develop. England only abolishes slavery in 1833
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