RESTORATION NOTES - Havlicek's classroom

RESTORATION NOTES ADDITIONS TO: Introduction through The 18th Century COMPARISION TO COLONIES

1607- 100 people 1753- 1.328 million Post-American Revolution (by 1783) 3.125

Million By 1800- 7.358 Million (TRIPLED IN 17 YEARS!) Early, Prominent Members of Royal Society ~Robert Doyle- considered the founder of Modern Chemistry ~Christopher Wren- architect- design/

built St. Pauls Cathedral THREE (3) MAJOR PHILOSOPHIES FOLLOWED BY THE EARLY MEMBERS OF THE RESTORATION PERIOD DEISM Product of the Age of Enlightenment

A RELIGION BASED ON REASON AND THE OBSERVATION OF NATURE DEIST PHILOSOPHERS

ROSSEAU / VOLTAIRE / KANT (EMBRACED THE AGE) *Accepted God as Creator of the Universe, but REJECTED the notion that God might break laws governing that Universe; which denies reality in scriptures. ******FREE-THINKING******

MORE DEISM DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND PREAMBLE TO CONSTITUTION We are endowed by the Creator with Certain, unalienable rights COLONIAL DEISTS BEN FRANKLINdiscovered electricity

THOMAS JEFFERSON Wrote Dec. of Independence Wrote

The Age of Reason THOMAS PAINE RATIONALISM Emphasizes the authority of human reason *Belief that all knowledge and

truth consist in what is ascertainable by rational processes of thought, and there is NO SUPERNATURAL REVELATION RATIONALISM EVOLVES 17TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHICAL RATIONALISM 18TH CENTURY CULTURAL RATIONALISM

MATERIALISM Holds everything in a state of CONCIOUSNESS EVERY HUMAN CONCIOUSNESS is caused by CHEMICAL REACTIONS MATERIALISM DEFINED *Material is the basic reality of the

Universe; hence that everything is material or can ultimately be shown to derive from matter. ****DENIES SPIRITUALITY****