enlightenment

In Hobbes's view of the social contract, people retained the right to question, overthrow, or replace their government.

• True
• False

How did Hobbes sum up people's quality of life in a state of nature?

• life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
• poor, nasty, brutish, and short
• fulfilling, long-lived, philosophical, and introspective
• scared, hungry, lonely, and cold

What are Natural Rights?

• Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
• Life, liberty and property
• Tabula rasa - born with a mind like a blank slate
• Protection from the Government

Who believes humans are born poor, nasty, brutish and short?

• John Locke
• Thomas Hobbes
• The English Monarchy
• Sir William Jones

What is the "State of Nature" according to Hobbes?

• Agreement between people and their government
• Everyone had a right to everything
• People are born with a tabula rasa - blank slate
• Life, Liberty and Property

True or False: Rousseau believed that the best form of government was a democracy.

• True
• False

Why does Thomas Hobbes decide to write about his ideas on the best way to govern?

• America was revolting against England
• America was going through a Civil War
• England was going through a Civil War
• England was revolting against Fr

In what centuries did the Enlightenment take place?

• 15th-16th
• 16th-17th
• 17th-18th
• 18th-19th

Which Enlightenment thinker wrote the Leviathan?

• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Baron de Montesquieu

Which Enlightenment thinker's social contract inspired the Founding Fathers to create the Declaration of Independence?

• Voltaire
• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Baron de Montesquieu
• John Locke