Enlightenment Quiz

Divides right from wrongbased on the consequences of an action.

...but to preserve the members of that society in their lives, liberties, and possessions

Any view appealing tointellectual and deductive reason as the source of knowledge. 

Because no one will be tempted to make that condition of shared equality worse for other men.

Japanese ships are strictly forbidden to leave for foreign countries.

Who said it?

Another term for absolutemonarchy where the monarch has complete power over his subjects.  

What happens right after this?

After the Glorious Revolution, who really had control in the United Kingdom?

This group fought for therole of parliament against King Charles I.

Who wrote it: Whoever refuses to obey the general will shall be forced to obey it...

Frenchphilosopher who wrote about a Social Contract between members of a society.

By public use of one's reason, I mean that use which a scholar makes of it before the public.

Thebelief that a moral action was only something you could do if everyone did itall the time.

Irish writer whosatirically proposed the population be fed with the excess babies of beggars. 

Assumedcontrol over the English Commonwealth after the execution of Charles I.

And if the stars are the centers of other systems they must be subject to the authority of One.

Englishwriter who encouraged the education of women

First answer in: How did the Scientific Revolution change the way people thought? 

This truth, I think, therefore I am, was so firm I was unable to shake it...

Every individual who persecutes a man because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Who said it?

First answer in: How did the Enlightenment change the way people thought?

German philosopher whobelieved morality was derived from rationality; "daring to know.”

What instrument did Frederick the Great play?

King of England whose conflicts with parliament led to civil war and his eventualexecution.

Contract between allmembers of a society to transform society towards democracy.

The will of the people as awhole.

Theview that the origin of all knowledge comes from sensory experience. 

Who wrote the following: Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains?

King of England who wasforced out and replaced by his nephew in the GloriousRevolution of 1688 

Prussianphilosopher king. Established Prussia as a strong military power.

Frenchphilosopher whose famous phrase, “I think, therefore I am,” shows hisskepticism

Act in which the Dutch armyforced James II out of England and installed William III as King.

Better to roast him and eat him after he is dead.

And most importantly, he inspired a wave of explorers and adventurers to head west.

For I found myself saddled with so many doubts and errors that I seemed to have gained nothing 

A series of conflictsbetween royalists and Parliamentarians over executive government. 

King of England whose restoration in 1660 marked the end ofrepublican rule in England.

Crowneda joint monarch with his wife, Mary, in 1689 after ousting James II. 

Frenchword which is a general term for thinkers of the enlightenment; philosophers. 

Why were germs more deadly for Americans than Europeans?

What book in Paradise Lost does this come from?

French philosopher whocriticized Christians for their intolerance.  

Belief that moral judgmentis contained in the act itself.

French King who revoked thelimited tolerance Huguenots had from the Edict of Nantes. 

Geographically, what aided the Europeans in their trade and travels?

Belief that a God createdthe universe, but he does not intervene in it.