Enlightened Ideas
Since the end of the Age of Absolutism, enlightened thinkers began stepping away from this concept.
Religion
This philosopher believed that people are all good and reasonable and that they are all born with natural rights, which are life, liberty, and property.
John Locke
This despot ruled Prussia during The Enlightenment.
Frederick the Great
A philosophical movement that centred around the idea that reason is the primary source of authority and legitimacy.
The Enlightenment
A place where men and women gathered in the 18th century to participate in intellectual conversations.
Salon
A belief that we come to knowledge through the use of logic and, thus, independently of sense experience.
Rationalism
This philosopher fought for civil liberties, which are: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of Church and State.
Voltaire
This despot advocated for education and created a two-tier system in Russia.
Catherine the Great
A body of techniques for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge based on empirical or measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning.
Scientific Method
They governed salons and decided what the topic of discussion would be.
Women
A big idea in this era where people question or doubt the traditions of faith and power with the emergence of scholarly figures and free thought.
Skepticism
This philosopher believed that having 3 branches in government would prevent tyranny.
Montesquieu
This despot made many of his reforms during his regency.
Frederick VI of Denmark
A term meaning to restrict access to ideas and information. This was an attempt used by the government and church authorities to defend the old order and prevent enlightened ideas from surfacing.
Censorship
Salons emerged during the ruling of this King.
Louis XIV
The two lines of Enlightenment thought.
Radical and Moderate
This philosopher believed that people are cruel and greedy by human nature and that government is there to protect them from each other.
Thomas Hobbes
This despot refused to comply with many of the nobility in Sweden, leading to the strong dislike of this despot from the aristocracy.
Gustav III
A theory that states that knowledge is derived only from experience and that sense experience is the ultimate source of everything we know.
Empiricism.
The term or name used for women who hosted salons in their private homes.
Salonnière
The difference between religious division in the Reformation and The Enlightenment is that the Reformation wanted a change in the Church, whereas, The Enlightenment wanted this concept to happen.
Separation of the Church and State
This person wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women and advocated for women's education and participation in public life.
Mary Wollstonecraft
This despot caused countless revolts due to his sudden reforms of religious toleration, codifying the government, and dissolving of religious institutions.
Joseph II
A term that refers to several related but distinct philosophical positions regarding the connections between phenomena "reducing" one to a simpler or more "basic" form.
Reductionism
Salons came about from the reign of Louis XIV because he wanted to organize science and arts together in this institution.
Royal Academy