The Enlightenment: The Rise of the Self Timeline Game
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About This Challenge
The Enlightenment: The Rise of the Self was a period in history marked by intellectual and cultural growth, where individuals began to focus on reason, individualism, and self-improvement. To explore this topic further, we have created a timeline game where players place events in their correct chronological order.
- Players will be challenged to match key events from the Enlightenment period with their corresponding dates.
- By successfully arranging the timeline, players will gain a better understanding of the sequence of events that shaped the era.
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- 1637: Rene Descartes publishes 'Discourse on Method', emphasizing the importance of individual reasoning
- 1690: John Locke publishes 'An Essay Concerning Human Understanding', promoting the idea of tabula rasa
- 1759: Voltaire publishes 'Candide', criticizing religious intolerance and promoting reason
- 1762: Jean-Jacques Rousseau publishes 'The Social Contract', discussing the idea of the general will
- 1781: Immanuel Kant publishes 'Critique of Pure Reason', discussing the limits of human understanding
- 1792: Mary Wollstonecraft publishes 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman', advocating for women's education and rights
- 1791: Thomas Paine publishes 'Rights of Man', advocating for political reform and human rights
- 1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod, showcasing the power of human reason and scientific inquiry
- 1751: Denis Diderot publishes the first volume of 'Encyclopedie', promoting education and knowledge for all
- 1776: Adam Smith publishes 'The Wealth of Nations', advocating for free market capitalism and economic liberalism
- 1739: David Hume publishes 'A Treatise of Human Nature', discussing the nature of self and consciousness
- 1710: George Berkeley publishes 'A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge', discussing the nature of perception
- 1677: Baruch Spinoza publishes 'Ethics', discussing the concept of God and human freedom
- 1943: Jean-Paul Sartre publishes 'Being and Nothingness', discussing the concept of existentialism and freedom
- 1748: Montesquieu publishes 'The Spirit of the Laws', discussing the idea of separation of powers in government
- 1651: Thomas Hobbes publishes 'Leviathan', discussing the nature of government and social contract theory
- 1620: Francis Bacon publishes 'Novum Organum', promoting the scientific method and empirical observation
- 1773: Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot gather at the court of Catherine the Great in Russia
- 1788: Immanuel Kant completes his 'Critique of Practical Reason', discussing moral philosophy and the concept of duty
- late 18th century: Enlightenment ideas influence the American and French Revolutions, leading to the rise of democratic governments