Enlightenment Flashcards
(24 cards)
European philosophers emphasized the use of?
Reason
The Enlightenment followed the?
Middle Ages
The Enlightenment came during an age of?
absolutism
When authority is controlled by the government and limited education?
absolutism
Enlightenment thinkers relied on the?
Scientific Method
These thinkers emphasized on experimentation and?
Careful observation
Important advances in Enlightenment? (5)
- anatomy
- astronomy
- chemistry
- mathematics
- physics
Thinkers put there findings in?
Encyclopedias
Thinkers also founded?
Scientific Institutions
Social Contract Theory? (2)
- Government (the state)
- No Government (state of nature)
Agreement by which people define and limit their individual rights, thus creating an organized society or government.
Social Contract
Rights that all people are born with the rights of life, liberty, and property.(Definition 1) According to___(2)
- Natural Rights
- John Locke
Thomas Hobbes -(15__(1) - ___79(2))
- 88
2.16
Thomas Hobbes:
-Wrote the ____(1)
-Did NOT believe in ______(2)
-Believed in ________ ______ (3)
-Believed that life in the _____ of _____ (4) would be “solitary,____(5), _____(6), brutish, and ____(7)”
1-Leviathan
2- Revolutions
3. Absolute Monarchy
4.State of Nature
5.poor
6. nasty
7. short
_____(1) social contract:
You gave up ____(2)
to gain ____(3)
1- Hobbes
2- Liberty
3- Security
John Locke
16__(1) - ___04(2)
1-32
2-17
John ____ (1)
-Wrote Two _____ _____(2)
-Believed in ____ (3) rights from _____ & _____(4)
-Believed in ____(5) government that ___(6) peoples natural ___(7)
- People are ____(8) in his eyes.
1-Locke
2-Treaties Government
3-Natural
4-nature and God
5-Limited
6-protected
7-rights
8-good
____(1) state of nature:
You have the right to…
(6 of them)
This is NOT a _____ of ____(2)
1- Lockes
2- State of war
Health, liberty, property, life, self preservation, and to execute the law of nature.
Are humans naturally good or evil? This is the…
biggest question of the Enlightenment
Many countries around the time of enlightenment were under ______ ______(1)
1- absolute control
___(1) & Government were connected & ___(2) was acquired by _____(3) right.
1- Church
2- Power
3- Divine
The royal family was given the right to rule by …
God
“Leviathan”
- state of __(1)
-Natural world & human beings before _____(2) or _____(3)
1- Nature
2-Societies
3- Governments
Religious authority & absolute rule:
- Challenged by
Enlightenment Thinkers
