period 3 vocab - princeton book

Question 1

empiricism

Answer 1

belief that knowledge comes from sensed experienced, your own experiences + experiments

Question 2

Thomas Hobbes Ideas

Answer 2

social contract theory and his belief in the need for a strong, centralized government to maintain order. natural state to live in a bleak society, but by giving up some rights people recieve law and order from the government.

Question 3

John Locke Ideas

Answer 3

advocated for social contract, concept of natural rights, arguing that individuals possess inherent rights to life, liberty, and property that governments must protect, and that is the responsibility of citizens to revolt against a government that is not maintaining those rights

Question 4

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Answer 4

presented concept of the General Will of a population + obligation of sovereign to carry it out