The Age of Reason
What's the French word for philosophers?
Philosophes
Life, liberty, and property are...
Natural Rights
The three branches in which government powers are separated.
Executive, legislative, and judicial.
Who argued this: because women have the ability to reason, they deserve equal rights to men?
Mary Wollstonecraft
Cultural and intellectual movement that swept Europe in the late 1600s.
The Enlightenment
This liberty was especially important for the philosophes (clue: people can even insult the US president).
Freedom of speech
He proposed the separation of government powers into three branches.
Montesquieu
He argued for a free enterprise system (people selling an buying products determine what products are needed and what price should be paid for them).
Adam Smith
It is the power of the human mind to think and understand in a logical way.
Reason
Female thinkers argued that women should...
... have equal rights with men.
He claimed that a leader could rule only with the consent of the people (he proposed a contract between the ruler and the ruled).
John Locke
He was especially outspoken about limiting the power of the Church and encouraging tolerance of all religions.
Voltaire
This ancient people used logic and reason to explain the world around them.
Greek and Roman philosophers
Philosophes argued that all knowledge should be based on...
Reason
The ideas of political thinkers helped form the foundations of what country's government?
The United States of America
In his social contract he proposed that individual would agree to work towards the good of the country.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This way of thought (logic and reason) was rediscovered during what important era?
The Renaissance
Mention 3 areas of people's lives that the Enlightenment touched.
Politics, religion, society, science, culture, education, adn economics.
John Locke published this important work...
Two Treatises of Government
Adam Smith published this super classic economics book.
The Wealth of Nations