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A gathering of great thinkers and artists to discuss and exchange ideas during the Enlightenment.
What is salons?
false beliefs
what is superstition?
open minded and educated
what is enlightened?
changes
what is changes?
said humans were not born with basic ideas, but they were
Who is John Locke?
rights people are born with such as the right to live, be free and own property
What is natural rights?
unfair treatment of a group of people
what is persecution?
Educated people
Who is Scholars?
makes the laws; Senate, Congress
what is the Legislative Branch?
argued that well educated women would help create enlightened families
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
to give permission to be governed
what is consent?
kings or queens that held ultimate power with no one to check on them
who are absolute monarchs?
the change from one way of doing something in a society to another way.
What is Revolutionary?
the idea that a king ruled by the authority of God.
what is divine right of kings?
people who studied politics, justice, liberty, property
Who are political philosophers?
form of government where people choose leaders by voting
What is democracy?
Publication that attempted to gather all the knowledge of humankind into a series of books
What is the Encyclopedia?
kings and queens
Who are the monarchs?
enforces the laws; police, military. President
What is the Executive Branch?
spoke out against religious intolerance. In response to his writings about the church, he was jailed at times
What is Voltaire?
disagreed with
what is opposed?
freedom
What is liberty?
interprets the laws; court system
What is the Judicial 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?
freedom
what is liberty?