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    The Age of Reason occurred between 1650-1780 and emphasized the use of reason and individualism. Key features included using logic over faith, doubting established truths, employing satire to critique society, and believing humans are inherently good by nature. A Modest Proposal was a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift proposing that Ireland's poverty could be solved by selling Irish children as food, though he was not actually suggesting cannibalism but rather indentured servitude.

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    The Age of Reason occurred between 1650-1780 and emphasized the use of reason and individualism. Key features included using logic over faith, doubting established truths, employing satire to critique society, and believing humans are inherently good by nature. A Modest Proposal was a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift proposing that Ireland's poverty could be solved by selling Irish children as food, though he was not actually suggesting cannibalism but rather indentured servitude.

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    The Age of Reason occurred between 1650-1780 and emphasized the use of reason and individualism. Key features included using logic over faith, doubting established truths, employing satire to critique society, and believing humans are inherently good by nature. A Modest Proposal was a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift proposing that Ireland's poverty could be solved by selling Irish children as food, though he was not actually suggesting cannibalism but rather indentured servitude.

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    Age of Reason

    1650-1780
    A movement emphasizes reason
    and individualsim
    Features

    •1)Use of reason: logical


    thoughts above everything
    •2)Skepticism: to doubt the truth
    of everything, people do not
    take things as they are
    •3) Satire: Social commentary, writers used
    exaggeration and irony to comment on
    issues
    •4)The belief that human are good by nature;
    for instance, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: a
    Genevan philosopher who has this belief
    A Modest Proposal
    • A Modest Proposal is a satirical essay written in 1729 by Jonathan Swift. The
    basic premise of the essay is that Ireland’s poverty could be alleviated by
    selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies, noting “it would
    provide some small relief to your excellency’s treasury, and enable you to make
    a suitable provision for the support of your Majesty’s ancient and faithful
    subjects.” Swift suggests that this would be a cost-effective method to reduce
    poverty without any need for more Irish to emigrate.
    • In A Modest Proposal, Swift does not actually suggest eating children but
    instead using them as workers in the family home. He claims he has already
    convinced many to adopt this measure, and “a man of three thousand pounds
    a year would be as well provided for, with eight children, as is now the person
    who has twice that estate without any.”

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