The Enlightenment Ideas

Question 1

Which words were most influential during the enlightenment?

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Logic and Reason

Question 2

John Locke & Rousseau =

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Democracy

Question 3

Thomas Hobbes =

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Leviathan

Question 4

___________________________ was the first modern philosopher to articulate a detailed social contract theory.

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Thomas Hobbes

Question 5

Thomas Jefferson =

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influenced by John Locke

Question 6

Thomas Hobbes =

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Absolute Sovereignty

Question 7

Who argued that every person was born with a blank mind, and that people were molded by their experiences?

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John Locke

Question 8

Montesquieu =

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The Spirit of Laws

Question 9

_____________ declared that women should have equal rights in education, as well as in economic and political life.

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Question 10

Rousseau argued that society should be governed by the military

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False

Question 11

Education spread widely during the Enlightenment because

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reading material was aimed at the masses.

Question 12

“To let people do what they want”

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Laissez-Faire economics

Question 13

American Declaration of Independence =

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influenced by John Locke

Question 14

Diderot’s Encyclopedia was used to

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attack religious superstition

Question 15

Natural Rights =

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Men are born and remain free and equal. So, Punch me in the eye, or naw?

Question 16

Most leaders of the enlightenment were ____________?

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French

Question 17

According to Rousseau, the general will represents what is best for the

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entire community

Question 18

The __________________ became a weapon against the old French society. It supported religious tolerance.

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The Encyclopedia

Question 19

Deism _______________________________________.

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the belief that our creator no longer interferes with the our world.

Question 20

Deism was a religious philosophy based on faith and the rule of God.

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False

Question 21

Who believed that the physical world and everything in it was like a giant “world machine”?

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Isaac Newton

Question 22

Rousseau =

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Social Contract

Question 23

The goal of the Enlightenment thinkers was to use the scientific method to keep society the same.

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False

Question 24

John Locke =

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Two Treatises of Government

Question 25

Laissez-faire is an economic doctrine that says the state should control the economy.

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False

Question 26

John Locke =

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Natural Rights

Question 27

Montesquieu =

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Separation of Powers

Question 28

________________ was most known for contributing the checks and balances system through separation of powe

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Montesquieu

Question 29

Who coined the term deism?

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Voltaire

Question 30

The role of philosophy was ____________________________________________.

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To change the world

Question 31

Montesquieu studied a system of government in which separation of powers caused the 3 branches of the government

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True

Question 32

The Social Contract Theory states that _______________________________________.

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in order to avoid chaos, people sacrifice some of their natural rights

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