The Thinkers
This philosopher doubted everything except his own thinking and famously said, "I think, therefore I am."
Who is René Descartes
The Enlightenment made people question miracles and Scripture, leading to a belief that God created the world but doesn’t intervene.
What is Deism?
What is reason?
Enlightenment thinkers believed this was the key to truth
John Locke said all people are born with rights, including life, liberty, and ____.
What is property?
Locke believed people are born with this kind of mind, meaning they have no built-in knowledge.
What is a blank slate
He believed that everything we know comes from experience, not from being born with knowledge already in our minds.
Who is John Locke?
Hume’s skepticism made people doubt this core Christian event because it’s a miracle that can’t be scientifically proven.
What is the resurrection of Jesus?
The idea that all knowledge comes from experience and our five senses.
What is empiricism?
The idea that all people have rights led to this important American document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
According to Locke, all knowledge comes from this rather than being born with it.
What is experience?
This philosopher argued that we can’t actually prove cause and effect—just because the sun rises every day doesn’t mean it always will.
Who is David Hume?
Kant argued that human reason can’t fully understand things beyond our senses, including God and the supernatural.
What is Metaphysics?
What is rationalism?
The belief that reason and experience are the main sources of knowledge.
The Enlightenment encouraged this type of learning, where people ask questions and test ideas.
What is the scientific method
He believed government should protect people’s rights, and if it doesn’t, they have the right to do this.
What is overthrow it?
He came up with the idea that morality should be based on universal laws, like "Treat others how you’d want to be treated."
Who is Immanuel Kant?
As people put more trust in reason than the Bible, some theologians started changing Christian teachings to fit modern ideas.
What is liberal theology?
What is the Blank slate? (Extra points if you know the Latin)
The idea that humans are born without built-in knowledge and learn from experience
The Enlightenment happened in this time period.
What is the 1600s and 1700s?
Locke believed people are naturally ____, meaning they can govern themselves with reason.
What is free and equal?
This thinker compared the human mind to a blank slate, meaning we start with no knowledge and learn everything from experience.
Who is John Locke?
This Enlightenment belief put human reason above divine revelation, shifting authority away from the church.
What is Rationalism?
The philosophy that doubts everything except what can be proven by reason.
What is skepticism?
Many Enlightenment thinkers wanted government to be based on ____.
What is freedom?
what is the main idea of Locke's
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