1. The Age of Reason: Supporting ideasDirections: For each of the beliefs and values of The Enlightenment (The Age of Reason) listed below, find a quotation from our readings in this unit that illustrates that idea/belief/value. Copy down the quote (use quotation marks and page numbers), and then explain, in complete sentences, how the quote supports the idea. This explanation is a “warrant” and it’s something you need whenever you use specifics/quotes in your writing. Do not just paraphrase the quote, but explain what it’s showing.

For your assigned idea, you must use all three authors that we studied: Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Patrick Henry.

Ben Franklin’s Autobiography excerpts OR “Dialogue with the Gout” Patrick Henry’s “Speech to the Virginia Convention”Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis, No. 1” OR “The Voice of Deism”

EXAMPLE: Idea: The present world is most important.

Source: Ben Franklin’s Autobiography

Quote: Franklin is interested in “Frugality and Industry freeing [him] from [his] remaining debt and producing affluence and independence”(132).

Explanation of how this quote supports the idea: Franklin’s focus on virtues of frugality and industry highlights his goal of attaining wealth now, rather than spiritual gifts in the afterlife. Getting rid of debt will make his life more comfortable now, and no amount of wealth or independence is of any use in an afterlife.

Idea: Free Will: Each person determines his own future.

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2. The Age of Reason: Supporting ideasDirections: For each of the beliefs and values of The Enlightenment (The Age of Reason) listed below, find a quotation from our readings in this unit that illustrates that idea/belief/value. Copy down the quote (use quotation marks and page numbers), and then explain, in complete sentences, how the quote supports the idea. This explanation is a “warrant” and it’s something you need whenever you use specifics/quotes in your writing. Do not just paraphrase the quote, but explain what it’s showing.

For your assigned idea, you must use all three authors that we studied: Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Patrick Henry.

Ben Franklin’s Autobiography excerpts OR “Dialogue with the Gout” Patrick Henry’s “Speech to the Virginia Convention”Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis, No. 1” OR “The Voice of Deism”

EXAMPLE: Idea: The present world is most important.

Source: Ben Franklin’s Autobiography

Quote: Franklin is interested in “Frugality and Industry freeing [him] from [his] remaining debt and producing affluence and independence”(132).

Explanation of how this quote supports the idea: Franklin’s focus on virtues of frugality and industry highlights his goal of attaining wealth now, rather than spiritual gifts in the afterlife. Getting rid of debt will make his life more comfortable now, and no amount of wealth or independence is of any use in an afterlife.

Idea: Human perfectibility is possible and desirable. One should strive to be better.

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3. The Age of Reason: Supporting ideasDirections: For each of the beliefs and values of The Enlightenment (The Age of Reason) listed below, find a quotation from our readings in this unit that illustrates that idea/belief/value. Copy down the quote (use quotation marks and page numbers), and then explain, in complete sentences, how the quote supports the idea. This explanation is a “warrant” and it’s something you need whenever you use specifics/quotes in your writing. Do not just paraphrase the quote, but explain what it’s showing.

For your assigned idea, you must use all three authors that we studied: Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Patrick Henry.

Ben Franklin’s Autobiography excerpts OR “Dialogue with the Gout” Patrick Henry’s “Speech to the Virginia Convention”Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis, No. 1” OR “The Voice of Deism”

EXAMPLE: Idea: The present world is most important.

Source: Ben Franklin’s Autobiography

Quote: Franklin is interested in “Frugality and Industry freeing [him] from [his] remaining debt and producing affluence and independence”(132).

Explanation of how this quote supports the idea: Franklin’s focus on virtues of frugality and industry highlights his goal of attaining wealth now, rather than spiritual gifts in the afterlife. Getting rid of debt will make his life more comfortable now, and no amount of wealth or independence is of any use in an afterlife.

Idea: People’s lives are guided by reason.

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