KEY TERMS
This means unchanging principles discovered through reason that govern human conduct.
What is natural laws?
“People are naturally selfish, so we need a strong government.”
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
The Scientific Revolution encouraged people to use this to understand the world.
What is reason?
These natural forces of the economy should be allowed to operate in a free market.
What are supply and demand?
The belief that rights belong to everyone from birth.
What are natural rights?
These are rights that belong to all humans from birth.
What is natural rights?
“People have natural rights, and government exists to protect them.”
Who is John Locke?
The Scientific Revolution caused people to begin questioning these.
What are traditional beliefs and ideas?
This Enlightenment thinker believed in the free market.
Who is Adam Smith?This Enlightenment thinker believed in the free market.
The idea that government should be based on the approval of the people.
What is government by consent?
This is an agreement in which people give up some freedom for an organized society.
What is the social contract?
“Government should represent the general will of the people.”
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
Enlightenment thinkers applied reason and scientific ideas to these two areas.
What are government and society?
Adam Smith believed businesses should be allowed to compete with little or no government interference.
What is laissez-faire?
The political idea that government power should be divided.What is separation of powers?
What is separation of powers?
This policy allows businesses to operate with little or no government interference.
What is laissez-faire?
“Power should be separated among three branches.”
Who is Montesquieu?
These principles, discovered through reason, helped Enlightenment thinkers understand the world.
What are natural laws?
This type of market allows supply and demand to influence the economy.
What is a free market?
The economic idea that businesses should operate with little government interference.
What is laissez-faire?
This is restricting access to ideas and information.
What is censorship?
“Women should have natural rights and access to education.”
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
The Scientific Revolution helped inspire people to use this instead of simply accepting traditional ideas.
What is reason and observation?
Adam Smith's ideas helped influence these modern economic systems.
What are capitalism and free-market systems?
The Enlightenment used this approach from the Scientific Revolution to question traditional ideas about government and society.
What is reason?