Enlightenment Thinkers

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege
• money and fame
• good looks and charm
• reason and logic

Many rulers came to power believing that their right to lead came from God. This is an example of: 

• Supreme Law
• Divine Right
• Their Opinion
• Poor Judgement

Most Enlightenment thinkers were speaking out against

• Democracy
• Absolute Monarchy

The Enlightenment is

• a time of rebirth
• a time when science ruled
• a time with people used reason and logic to explain the world
• a time when technology ruled

Enlightenment philosopher who did not agree with censorship.

• Voltaire
• Denis Diderot
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Adam Smith

Enlightenment philosopher who believed people had natural rights of life, liberty, and property.

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosopher who believed to limit government, that it should be divided into separate branches that shared power.

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosopher who believed people were born good, but society corrupted them.  

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosophers believe that if government abuses power the people should change it.

• True
• False

Natural Rights

• Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
• Life, Liberty, and Property
• Freedom
• Rights to say what we want, when we want to.