Enlightenment Thinkers

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Which enlightenment thinker believed that an absolute government is needed to keep order because people were born "wicked and brutish"?

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Hobbes

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Who believed in a social contract between the people and the government in which people gave up some freedom in order to have their rights protected? Options: Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hobbes

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Rousseau

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Who believed the government should protect a person's three natural rights: life, liberty, and property?

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Locke

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Who believed that women's education should be the same as men's?

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Wollstonecraft

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Who believed in a separation of powers as a way to provide checks and balances?

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Montesquieu

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Thomas Hobbes believed that all humans are _______________.

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selfish and wicked

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Who believed there should be a separation of church and state?

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Voltaire

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Which of the following statements would most likely have been made by Voltaire? Options: "People should not be afraid to speak their minds.", "The government is made to protect our natural rights.", "Trials should not be private.", "The king needs absolute power."

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People should not be afraid to speak their minds.

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Why did Thomas Hobbes believe that people needed to be governed by a ruler with absolute power?

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because people couldn't be trusted to govern themselves

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This image is most closely related to which thinker? Voltaire, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu

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Locke