People
Spoke out against religious intolerance. In response to his writings about the church, he was jailed at times
Who is Voltaire?
Form of government where people choose leaders by voting
What is democracy?
People who studied politics, justice, liberty, property
Who are Political Philosophers
Freedom
What is Liberty
Disagree with
What is opposed?
Argued that well educated women would help create enlightened families
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft
Kings or queens that held ultimate power with no one to check on them
Who are absolute monarchs?
The idea that a king ruled by the authority of God.
What is the Divine Right of Kings?
Changes
What is a reform?
False beliefs
What is superstition?
Said humans were not born with basic ideas, but they were learned from experiences
Who is John Locke?
enforces the laws; police, military. President
What is the Executive Branch?
Unfair treatment of a group of people
What is persecution?
To give permission to be governed
What is Consent?
Open minded and educated
What is enlightened?
Kings and queens
Who are monarchs?
Makes the laws; Senate, Congress
What is the Legislative Branch?
A time in the 1500’s and 1600’s where scientists tried to explain the workings of the universe by using logic, reason and science
What is the Scientific Revolution?
The change from one way of doing something in a society to another way.
Rights people are born with such as the right to live, be free and own property
What are natural rights?
Educated people
Who are scholars?
Interprets the laws; court system
A time beginning in the 1600’s and lasting until the 1700’s in which philosophers used reason to seek truths about human nature; also known as the Age of Reason
What is the Enlightenment?
A gathering of great thinkers and artists to discuss and exchange ideas during the Enlightenment
What are salons?
Publication that attempted to gather all the knowledge of humankind into a series of books
What is an encyclopedia?