Enlightenment Thinker's Category 1
John Locke believed that real power must come from the ______ in a nation.
People
This thinker argued that the only way to harness the evil in society is to establish a very strong ruler to exercise control.
Thomas Hobbes
Rational thinking, logical judgement.
Reason
True or False: The Church was intensely involved in politics before the Enlightenment
True
Pick the best answer for this era: All _________ are created FREE and EQUAL.
Men
In the process, people became enslaved by the government. How could they regain their freedom?
Rousseau
Humans are naturally reasonable, moral and good.
John Locke
During the Enlightenment, European people suffered a so-called?
“Crisis of Conscience”
_________ is to give someone greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation.
To enlighten
Every social, political and economic problem could be solved through the use of _________.
Reason
His ideas influenced both the American and French Revolution.
Voltaire
Was true to the Enlightenment, embracing science, reason, natural human rights, free thinking and morality.
Benjamin Franklin
According to some historians, the Enlightenment brought a new __________.
optimism
The learning of the natural world through systematic and rational observation, measurement, and experiment, and finally the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
Scientific Method
"It is sufficient to allow that she has always been either a slave, or a despot" in history.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Free market should be allowed to regulate business activity.
Adam Smith
Criticized absolute monarchy and admired British government.
Baron de Montesquieu
The period in history where western thought and culture were stretching roughly from 1650 to 1800.
“Age of Reason”, the Enlightenment
The main issue addressed by political philosophers of this time relates to the _______ of government.
legitimacy
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Voltaire
Only a powerful government could ensure an orderly society.
Thomas Hobbes
The social contract means an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will.
Rousseau
________ places men as a problem-solver, a discoverer, someone who can forge their destiny.
Science
It was characterized by dramatic revolutions in science, philosophy, society and politics; these revolutions swept away the medieval world- view and ushered in our modern western societies.
The Enlightenment
"The individual... alienates himself totally to the whole community together with all his rights"
Rousseau