Enlightenment Salon: Chracter Role

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U6-Lesson 12: Enlightenment Salon 2 (35 points)

1. Based on one of the following characters, prepare a speech of points you would present in a salon, that is a minimum of five paragraphs. (You can use the chart from the last assignment as a guide.) Include three credible sources you used in your research. Sources must include at least one primary source document (many of them wrote important works) and credible sources from the Internet. Include their name, major ideas, any books written, ideas on government, God, war, justice, education. Use examples of their work to support these ideas. Your research should include the following topics:

• Human nature

• The ideal government

• Ideas on organized religion and the nature of God

• Ideas on justice

• Ideas on war

Characters:

1. Denis Diderot, encyclopedist

2. Voltaire, writer

3. Mary Wollstonecraft, feminist

4. Frederick the Great of Prussia, ruler

5. Maria Theresa of Austria, ruler

6. Catherine the Great of Russia, ruler

7. Montesquieu, political thinker

8. John Wesley, religious reformer

9. John Locke, political thinker

10. Thomas Hobbes, political thinker

11. Joseph II of Austria, ruler

12. Baron d’Holbach, scientist

13. Edward Gibbon, historian

14. Adam Smith, economist

15. Edmund Burke, political philosopher

16. Margaret Cavendish, writer

17. Alexander Pope, poet

18. Pierre Bayle, spokesman

19. Baruch Spinoza, philosopher

20. Marquis de Condorcet, philosopher

21. David Hume, skeptic

22. Jeremy Bentham, philosopher

23. Napoleon Bonaparte, ruler

24. Thomas Paine, writer

25. Madame Geoffrin, hostess