The Enlightenment
He defined the Enlightenment as “man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity.”
Who is Immanuel Kant?
French thinkers who sought to apply reason to society were called this.
Who are the philosophes?
He popularized scientific ideas for the educated elite in books like Plurality of Worlds.
Who is Bernard de Fontenelle?
These elegant gatherings hosted by elite women helped spread Enlightenment ideas.
What are salons?
This French economic group believed land was the true source of wealth.
Who were the Physiocrats?
Who at The Geneva School wears the number 7 on his soccer kit?
Who is Davis Howell?
In this month Dr. Bellamy was born.
What is December?
These were the four key “buzzwords” of Enlightenment thought: reason, natural law, progress, and _____.
What is hope.
This philosophe wrote The Spirit of the Laws and argued for separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
This English thinker argued that the mind was a tabula rasa (blank slate).
Who is John Locke?
She was one of the most famous salonnières, hosting philosophes, writers, and nobles.
Who is Madame Geoffrin?
The Physiocrats promoted this doctrine meaning “let people do as they choose.”
What is laissez-faire?
Teachers of this subject can ___.
recite declensions from memory
catch every cell phone in 0.3 seconds
and summon the spirit of Cicero
all before 8:30 AM.
What is Latin?
Dr. Bellamy used to play piano for this singer/Actress when she first started out.
Who is Mandy Moore?
This earlier intellectual movement deeply influenced the Enlightenment.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
This philosopher criticized religious intolerance and fought for toleration in the Calas affair.
Who is Voltaire?
This belief held that all knowledge comes from sensory experience and observation.
What is empiricism?
These clubs, such as the Freemasons, also helped spread Enlightenment thought.
What are secret societies?
This Scottish economist wrote The Wealth of Nations (1776).
Who is Adam Smith?
In which class can you hear students state:
“I’m not arguing. I’m just presenting a valid syllogism as to why my assignment is definitely not late.”
What is Logic?
Dr. Bellamy once did this to get a kid to come to church.
What is beat him up?
These wars of the 16th–17th century drove many Enlightenment thinkers to reject traditional Christianity.
What are the religious wars and intolerance of the Reformation era?
He edited the Encyclopedia, calling it “the great work” of his life.
Who is Denis Diderot?
This Scottish philosopher helped found the “science of man” by applying empirical reasoning to moral subjects.
Who is David Hume?
This city was considered the intellectual capital of the Enlightenment.
What is Paris?
He argued that property was the origin of inequality and that society forced humans into chains.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
What is room 227?
Dr. Bellamy's wife was once on this famous t.v. show?
What is Full House?
This concept described educated Europeans losing confidence in their own cultural and religious assumptions after encountering global cultures.
What is cultural relativism?
This thinker shocked even other philosophes by arguing for strict atheism and materialism in The System of Nature.
Answer: Who is Paul d’Holbach?
He argued that humans would progress endlessly through history until reaching “perfection.”
Who is Condorcet?
This salon hostess in Berlin was daughter of the first Jewish physician allowed to practice there.
Who is Henriette Herz?
In Rousseau’s political theory, individuals must submit their personal will to this collective concept.
What is the general will?
This administrator gives out Candy Corn.
Who is Mrs. Howell?
This famous singer once asked for Dr. Bellamy's phone number after asking him out to dinner.
Who is Britney Spears?