Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely
This concept discussed in the unit means that a ruler has total control of their people
What is absolutism?
The Scientific Revolution challenged this institutions authority...
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
Philosophe is a French word that means "lover of wisdom" which comes from this older Greek word
What is philosopher?
This term refers to the time period where people began shifting from relying on superstition, tradition, and religion to explain the world and focused more on observation, logic, and reason in the search for truth...
What is the Enlightenment?
The basis of this is simply stating that citizens are protected against speaking out against the government...
What is freedom of speech?
The King is God's representative on earth was a main idea of...
What is the Divine Right to Rule?
The scientific revolution produced many things, among them was this process which standardizes the experimental process so that people can reproduce them in order to get similar results...
What is the scientific method?
Locke's Natural Rights include Life, Liberty, and this
What is Property?
These are, arguably, the two main ideas that inspired the Enlightenment...
What is the scientific revolution and absolutism?
Consent of the governed means government operates with the permission of the:
People
This event destroyed church authority and was one of the events that began the shift back toward abolute rule by monarchies...
What is the Reformation?
Excommunication and death were all promises made to this scientist during the Scientific Revolution...
Who is Galileo?
Voltaire believed that the government should not be iunfluenced nor ran by this institution and that it should be deliberately separate from goverment...
What is the Church (Religion)?
An idea that logic and reason should be used to guide our decisions in the world...
What is Rationalism?
This early philosopher thought that an absolute monarchy was the only way to truly rule people...
Who is Hobbes?
Arguably, this absolute leader is the best example of absolutism based on this quote from the leader himself: "I am the State!"
Who is Louis XIV?
The early idea on the structure of the solar system was known as _____ and later changed to _____...
Geocentric (Earth-centered); Heliocentric (Sun-centered)
The social contract created by Hobbes states that a governed people give up a few of their freedoms in order to be...
What is protected?
The Enlightenment expanded on this idea from the Renaissance, where the experience and freedom of the every day person was becoming more valuable in the world...
What is Individualism?
In paraphrasing the Enlightenment Thinkers... Government should not be abusive or oppressive, government should:
Protect you
This term refers to an absolute ruler's ability to suppress information that they don't agree with or information that challenges their rule...
What is censor or censorship?
Johannes Kepler proved that the orbits of planets are more shaped like this rather than the circles everyone used to believe...
What are ellipses or ellipitcal orbits?
This philosophe thought that their should be a separation of power in government so that no one person or body had too much power...
Who is Montesquieu?
The Enlightenment was all about forging a positive relationship between...
What is the people and their government?
According to John Locke, people had the ultimate right to do what if government failed to protect its citizens?
overthrow