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Homework : Suggest a popular song with lyrics that better reflects the ideas of the Enlightenment than the ones that I selected. In one well written paragraph, you should summarize the ideas of one of the major thinkers, then explain why and how the lyrics correspond to those ideas.
RESPECT - Aretha Franklin
Freedom “ “
Born Free – Andy Williams
Bad to the Bone – ZZ Top
I Am Woman (Hear Me Roar) – Helen Reddy
Imagine – John Lennon
Mother Nature’s Son – Beatles
Revolution – Beatles
Easy to Be Cruel – Three Dog Night
You Can’t Always Get What You Want – Rolling Stones
We Don’t Need No Education – Pink Floyd
Money – Pink Floyd
Philosophes and their Ideas
• Thomas Hobbes and the nature of society (all men are brutish). Idea that men must forfeit some personal freedoms for the benefit of having a strong ruler who maintains a peaceful and orderly society.
• John Locke – Blank slate theory, natural rights and the idea that man has the right to overthrow a ruler who does not protect those rights.
• Voltaire – tolerance; freedom of speech and religion.
• Montesquieu – separation of government, checks and balances.
• Rousseau – Noble Savage, ideas on education, social contract, the General Will.
• Adam Smith – capitalism, the invisible hand
• Mary Wollstonecraft – women’s rights
• Cesare Becarria – opposed the use of torture
1. In one well written paragraph, you should summarize the ideas of one of the major thinkers. (1 pt)
2. Name popular song with the lyrics pasted below that better reflects the ideas of the Enlightenment. (1 pt)
3. Explain why and how the lyrics correspond to those ideas, citing the lyrics in your response. (1 pt)
