Enlightenment Salon: Chracter Role
baby5457U6-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